He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.

There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.

The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the kingdom of heaven, rather than without.

I fall asleep in the full and certain hope That my slumber shall not be broken; And that, though I be all-forgetting, Yet shall I not be all-forgotten, But continue that life in the thoughts and deeds of those I have loved.

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

History is a bucket of ashes.

There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.