The living voice is that which sways the soul.

However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.

The happier time, the quicker it passes

And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.

It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas

Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.

There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit

Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.

It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.

Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.

Beware of those who speak ill of others in your presence.....don't be surprised of what they say in your absence.

God created everyone uniquely and for a purpose, and not to be on this earth as a passive spectator

If you love a girl, you never give up on her, no matter how long she resists you.

Future will always remember the heroes, its because of them there exist a future.

No low-trust society will ever produce sustained innovation.

Teleology is a lady without whom no biologist can live. Yet he is ashamed to show himself with her in public.

I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't.

This is something that, as artists, we constantly deal with-throwing away the past, slaying the father, and creating the new. This desire to throw away the old rules.

It's good to do things that are out of the norm.

It is an oldish question, but not perhaps a very interesting one, whether cooking is an art or not.