Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education.

I read my books aloud before they were published.

You can get famous for doing something stupid and empty, but you do something stupid and empty and you're already famous, you lose your career.

It must be possible for an empirical system to be refuted by experience.

God created the world to be praised on the subtle nature of his existence.

At the end of the day after a few speeches and a lot of campaign stops, I'm more energized than drained.

It's with my brush that I make love.

A world without any lies at all is not a good world, because it's artless and because there are no white lies, no flattery.

The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane.

Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it.