Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.

There is no better exercise than to study and devour a picture, and then, without looking at it again, to attempt the next day to reproduce it.

It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.