The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

A soul as white as Heaven.

Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.

John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, 'Twill make your courage rise, Twill make a man forget his wo; 'Twill heighten all his joy.

He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.

There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

The way to stop financial joy-riding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.

Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.

Clothe with life the weak intent, let me be the thing I meant.

Life is an incurable disease.

That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the runs of Iona.

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Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. - Strong Opinions.

It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.

Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered? No, let the candied tongue like absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning.