No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Envy, bleating 'I'm as good as you', is the hotbed of Fascism.

No distance can keep anxious lovers long asunder.

Idiots, Halt muttered. If we were here to cause trouble, we could simply ride them both down

As soon as we become one with the ocean in the shape of God, there is no more rest for us, nor indeed do we need rest any longer.

Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.

A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone

I think everyone can enjoy games.

The young British players need to take responsibility themselves for their form and ability.

The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.