Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.
Life is a handful of short stories pretending to be a novel.
Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy.
Hope is the anchor of the soul the stimulus to action and the incentive to achievement.
Honour follows those who flee it.
The past is a foreign country they do things differently there.
To improve your memory lend people money.
When you dig another out of their troubles you find a place to bury your own.
Do all the good you can By all the means you can In all the ways you can In all the places you can At all the times you can.
At certain times of grave national stress when that rag-bag called the British Constitution is in grave danger of coming unstuck thank heaven for the big safety-pin at the top that keeps it together...
If you don't place your foot on the rope you'll never cross the chasm.
Friends come and go enemies linger.
Love your friend with his fault.
He has enough who is contented with little.
There is no such thing as a little garlic.
Some people tell us that there ain't no Hell But they never farmed so how can they tell?
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
The brave venture anything.
Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.
A man of gladness seldom falls into madness.