“Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.”
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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
