Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Do noble things, not dream them all day long.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.

We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend one human soul whom we can trust utterly who knows the best and worst of us and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

The world goes up and the world goes down the sunshine follows the rain and yesterdays sneer and yesterdays frown can never come over again.

Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you temperance and self control diligence and strength of will cheerfulness and content and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Every duty that is bidden to wait comes back with seven fresh duties at its back.

There are two freedoms the false where a man is free to do what he likes the true where he is free to do what he ought.

Better is old wine than new and old friends like wise.

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken, it can rarely be put back together in exactly the same way.

Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell

If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all the world would understand, though they might not appreciate. The perfectly popular style is the perfectly scientific one. To me an obscurity is a reason for suspecting a fallacy.

Possession means to sit astride the world instead of having it astride of you.

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.

Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.