We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

Egypt is the gift of the Nile.

Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

It is better to be envied than pitied.

All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.

Although it is great to know, it is better to be told, 'I love you.' Whose day can you make better today by simply saying, 'I love you?' Now do the thing you know better to do.

There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it.

And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

How much the making of a garden, no matter how small, adds to the joy of living, only those who practice the arts and the science can know.

Always believe in yourself. Do this and no matter where you are, you will have nothing to fear.

Any man who would walk five miles through the snow, barefoot, just to return a library book so he could save three cents - that's my kind of guy.

We looked at each other until it felt like everything would burst into flames

Beauty draws the seer towards the person seen; it invites them to know and have confidence in that person even without knowing the person intimately.

[David Tennant's] Doctor has such humanity, he seems to understand us and he's very warm, so he's a comforting Doctor to be with, and he enables us to be slightly scarier than we had been.

And while everybody was busy laughing, what was I doing? I was laying the foundation to what I have in place now.