The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life.

Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe.