In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Fred Astaire is the Carioca, the Continental, the very Piccolino of romance.

Sometimes there's a general arc that you want to try and get better the longer you do something.

The most important fact about the subject of education is that there is no such thing. Education is not a subject and it does not deal in subjects. It is instead the transfer of a way of life.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

Like it or not, women are always subject to criticism if they show too much feeling in public.

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

A friend who won't respond to what a friend can't ask is like a looking glass in which you cannot see yourself.

I like to let my football do the talking, I'm respectful of other good teams such as Arsenal.