You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

The longer I live, the more deeply am I convinced that that which makes the difference between one person and another-between the weak and the powerful, the great and the insignificant-is energy-invisible determination.

Failure means that you would not, or could not, pay for success. Success is a matter of sale. It can (most often) be bought by a large outlay--of hard forethought--of pains--of steadiness--of the golden wisdom coined from experience. But the figure is too high for most of us. We are too poor, or too slothful, to bring the price.

Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.

A successful career has been full of blunders.

All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.

You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.

Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter.

In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.