Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

After all, suicide is contagious.

We get success by hard work and failure by hard luck

She closed her eyes. Said the four most comforting words she knew: "Once upon a time." An incantation.

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

My son is a Liverpool fan, and he was already kicking a ball before he was one. He was born in the football city, he had no choice.

I've had so many great experiences in my life, of living total free will, that I wouldn't change it for all the gold in the earth.

Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward.

Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail.

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

Never give up; nothing is done overnight. Anyone who achieved anything in life always did it after many failures. Don’t give up hope.