All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Young heads take example of the ancient.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.
Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.
People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.
