Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.

I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon

Life is a test and this world a place of trial.

Don't give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no good son has been ruined through the acquisition of horses. Unless they fell and broke their neck, which when taken at the gallop is a very good death to die.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.