 I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. |
| I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team! |
| The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think. |
| The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. |
| Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. |
| Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection. |
| When in doubt, do it. |
| The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. |
| It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. |
| Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason. |
| Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. |
| Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. |
| Apology is only egotism wrong side out. |
| A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. |
| Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. |
| Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. |
| To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. |
| The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size. |
| I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap. |
| Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light. |
