He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.

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.

If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand.

Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.

I feel closer to the artist I was when I was 19 now then I have done in other stages of my career.

Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like.

I won't hesitate to detonate, I'm short fused.

The match has become quite unpredictable, but it still looks as though Arsenal will win the cup

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.

Systems die; instincts remain.

There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.