Youth is wasted on the young.
I want to be all used up when I die.
In heaven an angel is no one in particular.
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.
I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
You’ll never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
Any enlightenment which requires to be authenticated, certified, recognized, congratulated, is false, or at least incomplete.
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Life is a progress, and not a station.
Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.
It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter
Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.
As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man’s intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man’s self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought.
Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
