“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.”

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.

Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.

We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.

Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.

Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?

What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.

Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.

Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.

The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship – it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

Our ability to receive love is a mirror of our own self worth. Until we learn to receive love with an open heart, we’re limited to how deep our relationships can go.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

Man belongs wherever he wants to go – and he’ll do plenty well when he gets there.

It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

I guess to be an entrepreneur you have to have a large ego, enormous pride and an ability to inspire others to follow your lead.