A minute's success pays the failure of years.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.