Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a
promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: read more

Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a
promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it!.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought
to be.

The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought
to be.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is read more

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability.
It is the ability to recognize ability.

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability.
It is the ability to recognize ability.

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled
with noble risks, is worth whole years read more

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled
with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry
decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters
through a marsh, without either honour or observation.

The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of
comfort.

The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of
comfort.