God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Whenever I am in a difficult situation where there seems to be no way out, I think about all the times I have been in such situations and say to myself, "I did it before, so I can do it again.

We are inspired to write by divine force.

Marching and quick-marching are much easier to God's warriors than standing still.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.

It's just, you can get very complacent if you do the same thing all the time and especially the comedian, it gives me you know different things to react to and respond to, and it stimulates me.

I think our danger is that we talk one thing, and we feel and act another thing.

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.

I wasn't convinced a shop girl would know the word 'Oedipal.