If a man be self-controlled truthful wise and resolute is there aught that can stay out of reach of such a man?

A great man does not lose his self-possession when he is afflicted the ocean is not made muddy by the falling in of its banks.

One should seek for the salutary in the unpleasant: if it is there it is after all nectar. One should seek for the deceitful in the pleasant: if it is there it is after all poison.

All fortune belongs to him who has a contented mind.

By associating with good and evil persons a man acquires the virtues and vices which they possess even as the wind blowing over different places takes along good and bad odors.

A wise man to accomplish his end may even carry his foe on his shoulder.

When we forgive, our emotions evolve and reveal the futility of carrying the baggage of anger, antipathy, hostility and hatred. We emerge out of those dark corridors of fear, angst and insecurity.

In my heart, I'm just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I'm not a rich man.

What we do flows from who we are.

In life I was your partner, Jacob Marley.

I believe in a civil society we should do as much as possible not to have firearms in any guise, but obviously they are a necessary function of policing.

I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heire. [I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heir.]

When opportunity comes it is too late to prepare.

The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.

In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.

If God consistently sent lightning bolts in response to bad doctrine, our planet would sparkle nightly like a Christmas tree.