"You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade"

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action"

"There are no gains without pains"

"People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest"

"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice"

"What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in"

"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own"

"When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome"

"Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more"

"We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity"