How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

Egypt is the gift of the Nile.

Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

It is better to be envied than pitied.

All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.

Even though God rules in the affairs of men, yet the earth is not God’s jurisdiction.

The only restorative for a guilty conscience is a sight of Jesus suffering on the cross.

No achieving without believing

As age changes with each moment, we become that little bit more of a distant memory to the person we are currently.

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am.

I don't cook. I respect food too much.

Welbeck is not the standard required at Manchester United.

The mind is a powerful thing and most people don't use it properly.

Somewhere, a long way away, people are doing sensible things like mowing lawns and digging gardens.

It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom.