Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius.

Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!

The further back I look, the further forward I can see.

"I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my "blood, toil, tears and sweat," to which I have added muddle and mismanagement, and that, to some extend I must admit, is what you have got out of it."

I feel devoutly thankful to have been born fond of writing.

All this contains much that is obviously true, and much that is relevant; unfortunately, what is obviously true is not relevant, and what is relevant is not obviously true.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.