The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up.

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

Success makes us intolerant of failure and failure makes us intolerant of success.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.

Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.