Gratitude is a virtue which, according to the general apprehension of mankind, approaches more nearly than almost any other social virtue to justice.

The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason.

Sound policy is never at variance with substantial justice.

To do evil is more within the reach of every man, in public as in private life, than to do good.

To find by experience that friendships are mortal, is the hard but inevitable lot of fallible and imperfect men.

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

Be Shameless. Experiment. This is the only way to identify your true passion.

I said to my mother, Henry VII is interesting. No he's not, my mother said.

Real comedy is not when you laugh at an idiot, it's when the idiot laughs at you.

... Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate. That's always been my philosophy.

Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).

Love is the voice of God whispering to you from within yourself.

Songwriters tell the truth.

Going down the old mine with a transistor radio.