"He who makes no secret of himself, enrages."

"Life is like a piano... what you get out of it depends on how you play it."

"Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here."

"Practice, the master of all things."

"If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch."

"The heart knoweth his own bitterness."

"Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true."

"To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful."

"Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him."

"You only give me what you have left over, and you want things from me that I do not have."