Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever!

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.

God goes ahead of a man who walks by faith, that is the beauty of faith

What happens to the world when science stops evolving?

You must have a dragon hidden inside you. When you need, you let the dragon out.

The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.

Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting f***ed.

What will happen to me, as the oyster said when he very inadvertently swallowed the gooseberry bush, nobody can tell.

There's still so much more to do. I can't sit back and be complacent, and none of us should be. I get around now in a wheelchair, but I get around.

I'm just happy that people have recognised me as leading man material.

The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.