[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

It was as if they wanted to take their older bodies and put their younger hearts inside.

At least as coherent as the Gettysburg Address backwards in Albanian, anyway.

Immature poets imitate mature poets steal.

Everything comes with hard work. You never get to stop working. I don't see myself ever getting comfortable enough to not have to worry about working.

Antarctic symphony has a geometric relationship to the landscape. It's saying that this landscape and the minimal kind of, you know I'm talking like seeing ice, is visually kind of eerily minimal.

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.

You never know . . . that's what makes life interesting.

Innovation = Inspiration + Perspiration + Perseverance.

Roam in the world as a lion of self-control; see that the frogs of weakness don’t kick you around.

I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being.