The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

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

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

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

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.