Nevercut what you can untie.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

To be preparedis half the victory.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.