The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

A lie never lives to be old.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

Each soul is potentially divine.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.