Plato

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Music gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and charm and gaiety to life.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show…let me do it now.- William Penn

I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you’ve taught him everything else first?

To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

We have all seen with a sense of nausea the abject, squalid, shameless avowal made in the Oxford Union. We are told that we ought not to treat it seriously. The Times talked of the childrens hour. I disagree. It is a very disquieting and disgusting symptom. One can almost feel the curl of contempt upon the lips of the manhood of Germany, Italy, and France when they read the message sent out by Oxford University in the name of Young England. Let them be assured that it is not the last word. But before they blame, as blame they should, these callow ill-tutored youths, they must be sure that they have not been set a bad example by people much older and much higher up.

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey’d.

No matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.