Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance not being fully recognized for some time.

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.