Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
Let all who build beware The load, the shock, the pressure Material can bear. So, when the buckled girder Lets down the grinding span, The blame of loss, or murder, Is laid upon the man. Not on the Stuff - the Man!
Those who only know England know not England.
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Your new-caught, sullen peoples, / Half-devil and half child.
You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?