Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
"It is hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a Very Small Animal."
Piglet took Pooh's arm, in case Pooh was frightened.
"when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it."