The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.

Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?

A people so individual in its genius, so tenacious in love or hate, so captivating in its nobler moods.

We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration of this aphorism in the records of Somerset House.

Were cricket and football abolished, it would bring upon the masses nothing but misery, depression, sloth, indiscipline and disorder.

I do not deal with subtleties; I am only a lawyer.

To increase the chances of a writer trying to kill themselves, cut off their hands.

Don't tell people what you're doing, tell them what you did!

I looked into the literature on this, " said Nightingale, "and it wasn't very helpful.""There's a literature about this?""You'd be amazed, Constable, about what there's a literature on.

You’d be hard-pressed to find an old person who would trade in a true friend for any amount of popularity or fame. You'd also be hard-pressed to find a young person who wouldn't.

There's something in science like the shine of the Patronus Charm, driving back all sorts of darkness and madness.

He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss.

The US does not involve itself in what is happening in the world's largest democracy, nor does it intend to do so.

When you work out or you're doing anything active, it's more fun as a group. You may lose track of the time, and the next thing you know, you're working out for two hours because you're having fun.

-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.

Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.