It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
He who laughs, lasts!
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.