Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?