Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.

Beauty is only skin deep.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground.

Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.

A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.

An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous

Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.

Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.

Things were first made, then words.

The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato - the only good belonging to him is underground.

She fitted in my arms, she always had, and the shock of holding her caused me to feel that my arms had been empty since she had been away.

Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

It is a thoroughly anti-Christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people.

I'm not cocky. But I'm very confident.

I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different character for each song.

One [television] program was an interminable exploration of the question: can a woman with a low I.Q. be happily married to a man with a high one? The answer seemed to be yes and no.

Organization of khaddar is infinitely better than co-operative societies or any other form of village organization.

Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.

Covering discretion with a coat of folly.