Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. - The Books in My Life.

I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. -David Starr Jordan.