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

Perhaps the most valuable result of al education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.

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.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.