Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal, Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.

Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.

Not fewer than three nor more than nine.

People who want by the yard, but try by the inch, should be kicked by the foot !

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force: Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990's.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.

A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.

Life is a state of consciousness.

Enough is as good as a feast.

Self-sacrifice is never entirely unselfish, for the giver never fails to receive.

No, truly, 'tis more than manners will; And I have heard it said, unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.

A Slice of Pie. i.e. piece of cake.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.

An evil gain equals a loss.

I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove; I will roar you, an 't were any nightingale. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.

The fire of glory is the torch of the mind.