Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

The principle applies here, help yourselves and Almighty God will not deny you his assistance.

By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.

Sometimes... I think parents work so hard to keep us from making their mistakes, they won't allow us to make our own.

I think that sexual oppression and dictatorship go hand in hand.

I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad.

I had had a huge background in the nuance of the accent because I went to drama school in England for four years.

I was always thinking the funny things but was always quiet and scared to be made fun of.

Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.

My prayer is that God give me no longer life than I shall be glad to use mine office in edification, and not in destruction.

For me, if the music is good, whether the artist is famous or unknown, I love being part of the music and contributing what I can to the bass end.