Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

It is never too late to be wise.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.

Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late.

The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.

A spark of divinity ignited a flame of fire within our spirit, our soul and our hearts.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Perhaps enlightenment, technology and secularism haven't cleared Europe of the oldest science of all - the occult.

That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.

People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.

The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.

It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense.

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again

Water adopts the shape of its receptacle, it is sometimes a trickle and sometimes a wild sea.

A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.