I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures.

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

We may not be in Manchester but we will always be united

Tonight, Garret the soldier didn't exist.

I'm always on the court with my dad.

A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.

Fairness does not consist so much of everybody's doing the same thing, but of everybody's being willing to do something that others don't want to do.

Old age is a powerful disguise.

If one regards inflation as an evil, then one has to stop inflating. One has to balance the budget of the government.

Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself.

Sin is absence of God. Nothing more, nothing less.

We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities.