Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.

I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman.

I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing.

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.

Don't hustle old people.

I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.

The Thames is liquid history.