A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.