Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.

Success comes from continuing to strive, fail and learn without losing enthusiasm.

I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.

The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it.

[There are dangers in] the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts.

Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.