The greater the man the greater the courtesy.

- Alfred The Great

I am a part of all whom I have met.

- Alfred The Great

When the Sun Clearest shineth Serenest in the heaven, Quickly are obscured All over the earth Other stars.

- Alfred The Great

Doom very evenly! Do not doom one doom to the rich; another to the poor! Nor doom one doom to your friend; another to your foe!

- Alfred The Great

Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of go…

- Alfred The Great

For man is man and master of his fate.

- Alfred The Great

For in prosperity a man is often puffed up with pride, whereas tribulations chasten and humble him through suffering and sorrow. In the midst of pros…

- Alfred The Great

Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?

- Alfred The Great

I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.

- Alfred The Great