Sometimes when Fortune scowls most spitefully, she is preparing her most dazzling gifts.
I never 'worry' about action, but only about inaction.
Those who serve supreme causes must not consider what they can get but what they can give.
There never will be enough for everything while the world goes on. The more that is given the more there will be needed.
I could not live without Champagne. In victory I deserve it. In defeat I need it.
Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.
Everyone has his day, and some days last longer than others.
There is nothing wrong in change, if it is in the right direction. To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.
I am a man of simple tastes—I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.
Success always demands a greater effort.
Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.