It is medicine, not poison, I offer you.
Who of English speech, bred to the traditions of his race, does not recognize Hamlet in his 'inky cloak' at a glance? Not to know him would argue one's self untaught in the chief glories of his language.
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.
Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.
Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.
I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.
Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.
You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become big enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes and reverses.
But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!
The theory behind representative government is that superior men-or at least men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity-are chosen to manage the public business, and that they carry on this work with reasonable intelligence and honest. There is little support for that theory in known facts.