It were better to be a soldier's widow than a coward's wife.

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?

Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.

Talent is useful, but always keep your dagger sharp.

The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser in musty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.

Thanksgiving speaks in clear, crisp tones of forgotten terms, like integrity - bravery - respect - freedom - discipline - sacrifice - godliness.

Fight all your battles on your knees and you win every time.

I declare a holy war, my Moslem brothers! Murder the Jews! Murder them all.

Fatherhood is not an easy assignment, but it ranks among the most imperative ever given, in time or eternity.

This is so much fun, but I’m so sleepy. To be continued?

One of the main reasons I don't like leaving the house is because I might find myself face to face with a Canadian.

In three weeks Britain will have her neck wrung like a chicken.

I normally don't regret. I enjoy everything, even if it's bad or good.