Once a decision is reached, stop worrying and start working.

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such terms; but the application of this description in no way precludes the simultaneous applicability of an entirely different description.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

Every claim creates an obligation.

The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's.

So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience.