Systems die instincts remain.
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms.
Logic is logic. That's all I say.
Heredity is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us.
Certainty generally is illusion and repose is not the destiny of man.
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating...
Longevity is having a chronic disease and taking care of it.
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
The reward of the general is not a bigger tent but command.
A man must get a thing before he can forget it.
Have the courage to act instead of react.
The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.
Imitation is a necessity of human nature.
When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.
Realize life as an end in itself. Functioning is all there is.
The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's s...
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!