A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.

Everyone can be corrupted, even the great and the good.

Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.

Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting shawl of butter, cups agleam and a faint wisp of steam rising from the teapot shawl.

We get these lives for free. I didn't do anything to get this life, and no matter what the hardships are, it is free and, in a way, it's an extraordinary bargain.

Now that I've reached 50, it has become important for me to sleep and wake up at my own pace. Otherwise, I'm completely zapped.

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

When you're public, you're at the mercy of the markets. You can be doing extremely well, but if the markets are in the tank or your industry is in the tank, you don't get rewarded for it.

People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.

We all have two childhoods, the unhappy one and the happy one.