There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

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Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you...

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you...

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

History, a distillation of rumour.

History, a distillation of rumour.

Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, - one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egoism,...

Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, - one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egoism,...

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited...

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited...

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and...

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and...

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the...

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the...

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at...

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at...

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which...

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which...

Worship is transcendent wonder.

Worship is transcendent wonder.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man...

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man...