For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

Take a simple idea and take it seriously.

You can only take too much in pursuit of something you don't really want.

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.

I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.

I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.

This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

Take a little timecount five-and-twenty,Tattycoram.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

We may look up to Armies for Defence, but Virtue is our best Security. It is not possible that any state should long remain free, where Virtue is not supremely honord.