There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.

From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

The sound body is the product of the sound mind.

Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.