All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.

I am what I am, and I don't apologize for being honest.

Please ignore rumors! I've had them for years and you have to just let them go over your head. Don't take them personally.

The man who is ... physically able to handle pig-iron and is sufficiently ... stupid to choose this for his occupation is rarely able to comprehend the science of handling pig-iron

It's not ideal to have three films coming out at once.

Sometimes we don't know we're dreaming; we can't even fathom that we're asleep.

Everybody has to have their little tooth of power. Everybody wants to be able to bite.

Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.

Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.