Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?
Education has really only one basic factor: one must want it.
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.
Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.
Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.
I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.
Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore them to the writer - he steps forth like a bridegroom, bids them all-hail, brings in variety and forbids the appetite to fail.
I'm a comic book fan.
My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose.