A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.

A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.

The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.

Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.

You haven't got a letter on yours, " George observed. "I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge.

Living on Faith.Striving on Desire. Flying on Hope.

Curses are like chickens, they always come home to roost.

Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics.

Had you restrained your love, you would be free of sorrow. The greater the love, while one possesses it, the greater the sorrow when one is deprived of it.

Lovers of words have no place where honest work must be done.

I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent.

People eat meat and think they will become as strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass.

If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.