A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!

The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.

Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.

The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.

Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.

No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter.

I have spent most of my life most happily making plans for others to carry out.

Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.

The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.

Oh, there you are, Albus, ' he said. 'You've been a very long time. Upset stomach?''No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines, ' said Dumbledore. 'I do love knitting patterns.

Love is the secret language of the heart which everyone can understand.

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.

Worship comes from a thankful heart.

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.

Dream that you died It takes you out of your mind The black walls of space Take me all the way

I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one.

The writer's intention hasn't anything to do with what he achieves. The intent to earn money or the intent to be famous or the intent to be great doesn't matter in the end. Just what comes out.

The sea lives in every one of us.