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

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.

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

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

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.

When we refuse to do what we are supposed to do at the right time, the consequence is that of pain and tragedy.

Without struggles, success would be meaningless.

Some of the Scotland players need to look themselves in the face.

Tonight I'm happy. I will worry about tomorrow when tomorrow comes. But I'm getting there.

It's nice to be in a world where you're not going to exhaust storylines with potential villains.

No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.

In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.

Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.

But learn this custom from the flower: silence your tongue.

He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.