He makes no friends who never made a foe.
And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
Love is the only gold.
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Better not be at all than not be noble.
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
By blood a king, in heart a clown.
Kind hearts are more than coronets / And simple faith than Norman blood.
This better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all.
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
