The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.
Female friendships are of rapid growth.
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.
I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.