I must do something or I shall wear my heart away.

If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is.

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.

I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out.

Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.

He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.