It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.
About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead!
Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go to lectures at all.
Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it.