The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?

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.

His voice was languidly dense, as if he was a little slow on the uptake, but Strike knew that tone came from the man's feeling of complete control.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

It's not a love of poetry readings that attracts those who do come to them but theater.

Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional.

He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.

Some people we know in our lives come up to a crossroads, and they could go left or right, and then end up in a totally different place.

I could play Arab roles, even German roles, Italian roles because I had that look.

When two good men contend about principles, both are always right.

Press Freedom will never be under threat in South Africa for as long as the ANC is the majority party