Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Behind every great man there is a surprised woman.
Not necessarily conscription, but conscription if necessary.
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.
Time is the arbitrary division of eternity.
Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.
Old men and far travellers may lie with authority.
Golf and sex: Two things you can really enjoy without being that good at them.
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.
A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
In the game of life nothing is less important than the score at half time.
To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
I was wounded in the house of my friends.
You can kill time or kill yourself, it comes to the same thing in the end.