Perhaps we make too much of what is wrong and too little of what is right. The trouble with gloom is that it feeds upon itself and depression causes more depression.

I do not admire people who are wise after the event. I would rather be impaled on the other horn of the dilemma and be called one of the "I told you so's."

When you have to hold a hot coffee-pot, it is better not to break the handle off.

Usually youth is for freedom and reform, maturity for judicious compromise, and old age for stability and repose.

The king cannot fall unworthily if he falls to the sword of the ace.

Persevere towards those objectives which are lighted for us by all the wisdom and inspiration of the past.