“Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.”

“Success is the child of audacity.”

“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”

“Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.”

“Justice is truth in action.”

“It has been my lot to have found myself in many distant lands. I have never been in one without finding a Scotchman, and I never found a Scotchman who was not head of the poll.”

“An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.”