Life has a way of demanding that you live it.

Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means.

A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.

The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull of Napoleon!

The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.