It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

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.

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.