The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.
The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.
Power and speed be hands and feet.
Let there be worse cotton and better men.
Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.
God screens us evermore from premature ideas.