Highest among those who have exhibited human nature by means of dialogue stands Shakespeare. His variety is like the variety of nature,--endless diversity, scarcely any monstrosity.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.

Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.

Football is becoming all about money. I would like to be in a lift with Gordon Brown and say, 'Please do something about football.'

There is no philosophy that will help us to succeed if we doubt our ability to do so.

With real relationship within, you are as delicateness really listening.

Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

One's whole being vibrates like strings brushed by an invisible wind.

Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations.

The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.

Why is Mr Universe always from Earth?

You look at people like Gena Rowlands, but she had [John] Cassavetes to write these amazing roles for her.