A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the operation has been performed, but everyone feels the effect.

One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.

All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.

Let each man be judged by his deeds, I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I willed.

Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.

Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew — (Twenty bridges or twenty two) — Wanted to know what the River knew, For they were young, and the Thames was old And this is the tale that River told.

There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.