If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

Many persons nowadays seem to think that any conclusion must be very scientific if the arguments in favor of it are derived from twitching of frogs' legs (especially if the frogs are decapitated) and that, on the other hand, any doctrine chiefly vouched for by the feelings of human beings (with heads on their shoulders) must be benighted and superstitious.

So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.

The strenuous life tastes better

All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.