Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard.

An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it