All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

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.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

Be that self which one truly is.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.