Some women blush when they are kissed, some call for the police, some swear, some bite. But the worst are those who laugh.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872 We do not cease to be children because we are disobedient children.

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.

Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission.

Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.

Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.

Art is Man's nature. Nature is God's art.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.

The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, They have left unstained, what there they found,-- Freedom to worship God.

The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us a new combination of the same elements; and about once in so often we go back and begin again.

A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iv. Sc. 5.

The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host, and then a master.

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, Our bruised arms hung up for monuments, Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front; And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them,— Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 1.

It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.