All love that has not friendship for its base, Is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
Humour is just another defence against the universe.
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it. Then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.
Languages are the pedigree of nations.
Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.
When a man begins to reason, he ceases to feel.
Young men think old men fools and old men know young men to be so.
Mary had a little lamb It's fleece was white as snow, And everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go.
I know lots more old drunks than old doctors.
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
You can and you can't, You will and you won't; You'll be damn'd if you do, You'll be damn'd if you don't.
Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
Life begins at fifty, but so does bad eyesight, arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same listeners.
Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
Life is ever since man was born, licking honey from a thorn.
What should they know of England, who only England know?
He must really be a big success - even his mother-in-law admits it.