Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.