Luck never mad a mad man wise

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

Jealousy arises from lack of Confidence, not in others, but in onself.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist