Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. 675
At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start. 714
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. 865
Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something. 2.41K
Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. 670
Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it. 692
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwelath last for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour.” 760
