A man who gets the reputation of rising at dawn can sleep to noon.

Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose.

Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm.

Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

... painting a picture is like fighting a battle; and trying to paint a picture is, I suppose, like trying to fight a battle. It is, if anything, more exciting than fighting it successfully. But the principle is the same.

Singapore could only be taken after a siege by an army of at least 50,000 men. It is not considered possible that the Japanese would embark on such a mad enterprise.

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