One's dreams must be big enough so as not to lose sight of them.

Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.

Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.

To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.