Heywood

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream.

I see no wisdom in saving up indignation for a rainy day.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.

He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.