Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.

Age ... is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Yet ah! why should they know their fate?Since sorrow never comes too late,And happiness too swiftly flies.Thought would destroy their paradise.No more; where ignorance is bliss,'Tis folly to be wise. - Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

Let the motive be in the deed and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward.

Ad astra per aspera

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope.

Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.

It's fun being a kid.

Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man has a moral right to withhold his support from an organization that is striving to improve conditions within his sphere.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is ... opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.