Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.

There are many different kinds of bravery. There's the bravery of thinking of others before one's self. Now, your father has never brandished a sword nor fired a pistol, thank heavens. But he has made many sacrifices for his family, and put away many dreams... He put them in a drawer. And sometimes, late at night, we take them out and admire them. But it gets harder and harder to close the drawer... He does. And that is why he is brave.

...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.

The useless men are those who never change with the years.

In love-making, as in other arts, those who do it best cannot tell how it is done.

I know, I feel, that with the introduction of tobacco England woke up from a long sleep. Suddenly a new zest had been given to life. The glory of existence became a thing to speak of. Men who had hitherto only concerned themselves with the narrow things of home put a pipe into their mouths and became philosophers.