When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.