The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

Where there is a will there is a way.

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

I have yet to hear God's audible voice, although I have often felt led by God in more subtle ways.

No amount of therapy can replace the joy of revenge writing.

Dogs come when they're called cats take a message and get back to you.

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man but must be taught to protect herself.

I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.

There is no true gospel fruit without faith and repentance.

A great deal of capital, which appears to-day in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of children.

After Frankenstein, I feel as if I want to make a film about somebody having a nice cup of tea.

Politics is its own world. It is a court and if the king's eye lights on you, you are a powerful figure. If the king's eye wanders elsewhere, you are out, whatever your title.

I think the career of President Mitterrand, which was rather sensational when it was revealed, is probably very typical.