Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

I’m not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it.

Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate - namely, that theory that all men are created equal.

Where might is, the right is: Long purses make strong swords. Let weakness learn meekness: God save the House of Lords!

Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after theyre dead.

The provision is in the promises.

By losing your goal, You have lost your way.

Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to the globe as a whole; yet most, if not all geologists, write as though it were so.

Quite obviously a cat trusts human beings; but she doesn't trust another cat because she knows better than we do.

I trust to luck. I am planning to be a millionaire before I die but I don't have a plan as to how that will happen.

I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.