“To try to be better is to be better.” — Charlotte Cushman

“It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.” — Pierre Corneille

“Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.” — W. Somerset Maugham

“It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.” — Hank Aaron