The only guide to a man’s conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.
In Success you deserve it and in defeat, you need it.
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
Things don’t happen to me. I happen to things!
It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.
Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.
I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.
Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.
My education was interrupted only by my schooling.
There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people.
His name is Rufus II-but the II is silent.
Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.
The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.
Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day.
There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame if that moment finds him either unwilling or unprepared for that which would become his finest hour.
One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.
The unforgivable sin of Hitler’s Germany was to develop a new economic system by which the international bankers were deprived of their profits.
I hate nobody except Hitler – and that is professional.
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.