Expression is the dress of thought.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.

Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion!

Don’t accept the available as the preferable. Go extra mile with extra speed.

The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

I have to be pretty close to what I am.

A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.

It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself.

I read books more than I go out.

All that is required is to know this. For you are the creator of your reality, and life can show up no other way for you than that way in which you think it will.

I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.