Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

If you mean to profit, learn to please.

Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen. Here I might leave my bones.

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

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Our free trade plan is quite simple. We say that every [citizen] shall have the right to buy whatever he wants, wherever he wants, at his own good pleasure, without restriction or discouragement from the state.