Robertson Davies

Music is like wine, the less you know about it the sweeter you like it. 

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.

Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.

Kings are not born they are made by universal hallucination.

I didn’t find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a want, which is incipient habit?

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.