A sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Stand in your own two shoes.

Do you wish to make of your enemy a friend? Then become a friend to your enemy.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

Happiness often comes when least expected.

I was taught that if you see a person drowning, you must jump into the water to save them, whether you can swim or not.

Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.

Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.

The place where you lose the trail is not necessarily the place where it ends.

Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.