Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth will proceed by loving...
Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised...
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart...
Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the...
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose...
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die...
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have...
The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West so was my information...
There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure and that's if we quit.
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.
Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because...
Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot...
I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.
Ken Lay has does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of...
It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his...