"A day may sink or save a realm."

"Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change."

"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."

"Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love."

"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."

"My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure."

"Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?"

"And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men."

"I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time."

"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power."

"Who is wise in love, love most, say least."

"O earth, what changes hast thou seen!"

"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions."

"Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last."

"All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move."

"We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed."

"There's no glory like those who save their country."

"In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man."

"Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell."

"Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts."

"There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds."

"He makes no friends who never made a foe."

"A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times."

"The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men."

"What rights are those that dare not resist for them?"

"Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself."

"A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies."

"I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair."

"Love is the only gold."

"Tis not too late to seek a newer world."

"God's finger touched him, and he slept."

"Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die."

"By blood a king, in heart a clown."

"Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die."

"The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts."

"Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within."

"Authority forgets a dying king."

"A smile abroad is often a scowl at home."