As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

Even the weak become strong when they are united.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

I think—the hero observes that nothing is so frightening as a labyrinth with no center.

If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would certainly put Gulliver's Travels among them.

Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone.

The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.

A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion.

What could be any more correct for any people than to see with their own eyes?

What if getting bigger isn't the point? What if you merely got better?

The development of man is a return to an original perfection.

God is love, the bishops tell. Yes, I know, But love is hell.

Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.