When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books; for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved, and the heart.
When I am come to mine own again, I will always honour little children, remembering how that these trusted me and believed in me in my time of trouble; whilst they that were older, and thought themselves wiser, mocked at me and held me for a liar.
When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
What’s the use you learning to do right when it’s troublesome to do right and ain’t no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?
We ought never to do wrong when people are looking.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.
To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.
To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.