"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations." - W i n s t o n    C h u r c h i l l

"Always do what you are afraid to do." "To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven." "Believe in magnetism, not in needles." "I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching." "Hitch your wagon to a star." "Every man I meet is in some way my superior." "No man has learned anything until he knows that every day is the judgement day." "Nothing great is ever achieved without enthusiasm." "The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression" "Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss."

"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." "Beggars should be abolished utterly! Verily, we are angry when giving them anything and are angry when not giving." "Not by wrath doth one kill, but by laughter." "He who knoweth the reader doth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and the spirit itself will stink." "Of all that is written I love only that which the writer wrote with his own blood."

"Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body" "We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire." "It is easier to be wise for others than for oneself." "The head is always fooled by the heart." "The flaws of the mind intensify with age, like those of the face." "We seldom praise except to get praise back." "Only the great are entitled to great faults."

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." "Artful speech and ingratiating demeanour rarely accompany virtue." "A scholar who is not grave will not inspire respect, and his learning will therefore lack stability. His chief principles must be conscientiousness and sincerity. Let him have no friends unequal to himself. And when in wrong let him not hesitate to amend himself."