The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

All progress is experimental.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.

Attack another's rights and you destroy your own.

Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Too much agreement kills the chat.

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

It calmed me down to see that most of the time no-one gets the scene on the first take.

Let no stranger intrude here, no invader trespass. This was ours, and this we would defend.

You struggle with your demons and you conquer them.

Athletics is a luxury.

We don’t know what we’re capable of until we have to survive. Each of us is stronger than we know - the key is learning to tap that power at will.

We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.

People don't have to believe in you for you to succeed. Just work hard, when you succeed, they will believe.

When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die?