Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness.

All my successes have been built on my failures.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Success is the child of audacity.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

“There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”

“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”

“When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.”

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.”

“The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it. ”

“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”

“All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.”

“Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.”

“How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.”

“To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge”

“Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.”

“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”

“The secret to success is constancy of purpose.”

“He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.”

“Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.”

“Little things affect little minds.”

“The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.”

“When I want to read a novel, I write one.”

“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”

“One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.”

“One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.”

“Everything comes if a man will only wait.”

“Everything comes if a man will only wait.”

“A canter is the cure for all evil.”

“The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.”

“We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.”

“Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.”

“I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?”

“My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. ”

“Where knowledge ends, religion begins.”

“Do not read history. Read biography for it is life without theory.”

“But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.”

“As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.”

“Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.”

“Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.”

“Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.”

“Life is too short to be little.”

“I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.”

“Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.”

“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.”

“Ignorance never settles a question.”

“The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.”