Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

Be more concerned about your life's impact on the lives of others than your image.

You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.

Life is simple, just be yourself.

They had nothing in common but the English language.

The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.

Being is unrecognizable unless it manages to seem, and seeming is feeble unless it manages to be.

The King can do no wrong; he cannot constitutionally be supposed capable of injustice.

I come at a subject from a profoundly photographic level. I am not interested in pictures that ultimately don't work as pictures.

You've been fightin again and, you forgot why Hey kid, walk straight, master your high

Those who have come to an impasse should examine their original intentions; those who have succeeded should note where they are heading.