Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.

Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.

In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.

Whatever you practice, good or bad, you become good at it!

Hope is the belief more or less strong that joy will come desire is the wish it may come.

The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism.

My soul, be satisfied with flowers, with fruit, with weeds even; but gather them in the one garden you may call your own.

What the world needs is not redemption from sin but redemption from hunger and oppression; it has no need to pin its hopes upon Heaven, it has everything to hope for from this earth.

I try to be athletic.

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

Paradise belonged to the innocent. Which was why it was and would ever remain empty. And that is what makes it a paradise.

It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'.