All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things.

The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.

I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.

Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?

For man is man and master of his fate.

One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.

I am a part of all whom I have met.

Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point.

The greater the man the greater the courtesy.

It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.

O hard, when love and duty clash!

Waves in an ocean remind us that just as they come and go, we too will. What matters is did we make a good splash before leaving?

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

To achieve peace, think of peace.

Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.

When I get older, I don't think I'll like to have wrinkles, or a big jelly belly. I cannot have it.

In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.

You get to the big leagues, and you think, 'Can I do this stuff?' Then you take the first pitch down the middle for Strike 1, and you think, 'I could have hit that.'

Change your leaders, not your light bulbs.