But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare.

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!

Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.

We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.

You do not get to choose who you love.

The Lord was Baptized, not to be cleansed Himself, but to cleanse the waters, so that those waters, cleansed by the flesh of Christ which knew no sin, might have the power of Baptism.

I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian.

A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.

You know there are very few Marxists left in the world... they're all in American universities.

I would say that clothes are an excuse for living in the world.

If you take suede leather and put it on a piece of steel, and put moisture on it, it actually sticks.

I'm going to focus on speed, doing little things like my turns and my starts - just speed.

I'm so down to earth, I'm bringing gravity back.

You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.