The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.

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.

And I find myself asking again and again.... What was it about such a beautiful man, who was able to leave such ugly scars?

One man's thorn is another man's rose.

Every dream has a message. Pay attention!

Now is the time to change your tomorrow.

When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

I'm very brave generally,' he went on in a low voice: 'only today I happen to have a headache.' (Tweedledum)

A fierce brief fusion which dreamers call real, and realists, an illusion; an insight like the flight of birds.

Often jobs are un-turndownable even before you read the script. You go, "Well, I have to do that."

I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.