You can never be sure of anyone until you're close enough to see them clearly.
One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's.
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?
I feel helpless, hopeless, too low to call out, too weak to think. Impotent tears dribble down.
But I knew - in the old days, if a song was a good song, I don't care if it was 'Yellow Submarine' or, you know, or 'The Times They Are a-Changin' or 'Don't Be Cruel', you knew it, you know? You heard that song, and you were talking about it, and you knew it.
Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning!
Surfers are members of a different race of people from the man in the street