You Cannot Fight Against Future.

I Am Certain, From Experience, Of The Immense Advantage Of Strict Account-keeping In Early Life. It Is Just Like Learning The Grammar Then, Which When Once Learned Need Not Be Referred To Afterwards.

For Works Of The Mind Really Great There Is No Old Age, No Decrepitude. It Is Inconceivable That A Time Should Come When Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Should Not Ring In The Ears Of Civilized Man.

Never Forget That The Purpose For Which A Man Lives Is The Improvement Of The Man Himself, So That He May Go Out Of This World Having, In His Great Sphere Or His Small One, Done Some Little Good For His Fellow Creatures And Labored A Little To Diminish The Sin And Sorrow That Are In The World.

We Are Bound To Lose Ireland In Consequence Of Years Of Cruelty, Stupidity And Misgovernment And I Would Rather Lose Her As A Friend Than As A Foe.

[the British Constitution] Presumes More Boldly Than Any Other The Good Sense And The Good Faith Of Those Who Work It.