“Success is the child of audacity.”

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

“The secret to success is constancy of purpose.”

“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”

“As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.”

“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.”