So when a great man dies For years beyond our ken The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men.

Our home joys are the most delightful earth affords, and the joy of parents in their children is the most holy joy of humanity.

Whoever is unwilling to help himself can be helped by no one.

The greatest victory a man can win is victory over himself.

The circle of knowledge commences close round a man and thence stretches out concentrically.

Is it then saying too much if I say, that man by thinking only becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, and what remains?

Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.

Charity is the drowning of justice in the craphole of mercy.

You can drive the devil out of your garden but you will find him again in the garden of your son.

There is no happiness for him who oppresses and persecutes; no, there can be no repose for him. For the sighs of the unfortunate cry for vengeance to heaven.

I learned that no man in God's wide earth is either willing or able to help any other man.

Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?

Please open please if there's any justice in this world.

We have medicalized a lot of things that I think are not really medical conditions.

Tribalism never prospers, for when it does, everyone will respect it as a true nationalism, and no-one will dare call it tribalism.

"Open Arms" has a lot of unison singing in it. And it works: Grown men will come to our gigs and cry during that one.

All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.

All I say is, if you cannot ride two horses you have no right in the circus.

Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.

Your true self is a treasure of all divine virtues.

What's a man got to do to get in the top fifty?