Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.

However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.

The happier time, the quicker it passes

And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.

It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas

Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.

There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit

It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.

Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

The universe is infinite, so there is room for everyone, for every belief, for every custom, and for every desire. You are in competition with no one but yourself.

She caught herself working so hard at mothering that she forgot to enjoy her children. -from ~Homecoming Season~

I am two fools I know for loving and saying so.

It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup from its kind.

It’s precisely the people who are considered the least ‘likely’ leaders who end up inspiring others the most. Everyday people and everyday acts of courage eventually change everything.

Our football belongs to the working class and has the size, nobility and generosity to allow everyone to enjoy it as a spectacle.

There's no such thing as a healthy tan, and that's what people need to understand.

Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time.

From a very early age, I started to get really interested in how songs were put to tape. Not just listening to the songs, but the way the songs were recorded.

To a good man, God gives not only wisdom and knowledge, but joy.