If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run— Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—you’ll be a Man, my son!

The greatest improvement is made by the man who works most intelligently.

I felt like poisoning a monk.

We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.

There will always be dissident voices heard in the land expresing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side, and seeking influence without responsibility.

Friendship improves hapiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief.

A fair woman is a paradise to the eye, a purgatory to the purse, and a hell to the soul.

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.