Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.