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

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

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

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.

She could forgive him for missing their dinner date, but she would never forgive him for dying.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don't care who people are as long as they're themselves, whatever that is.

Be careful what you're good at doing, because you'll probably do a lot of it.

The German air offensives against British cities in World Wars I and II not only failed to coerce the United Kingdom to surrender, but Germany also lost both wars.

They say that moving is one of the most stressful things in life. Death in the family is the second most stressful, and moving your dead spouse is the third.

I lay down so hard, I got bed rash

Why should I fear? I am on a Royal Mission. I am in the service of the King of kings.

If the artist starts evaluating himself, it’s an enormous block, isn’t it?

The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind.

To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth.