It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.

There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?

Translation is at best an echo.

If you must commit suicide ... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.

There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.

Good ale, the true and proper drink of Englishmen. He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale, that is good ale.

We must walk before we run.

Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.

A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.

Never ride your horse more than five-and-thirty miles a day, always taking more care of him than of yourself; which is right and reasonable, seeing as how the horse is the best animal of the two.

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

Feminism as a political movement has to specifically address the needs of men in their struggle to revolutionize their consciousness.

While we won't be able to help the 10,000 people who died in last year's [Ebola] outbreak, we can do something to save untold numbers of lives in the future if NIH is working at full strength.

Our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.

Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.

She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her

he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors

Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

First governor in Arkansas history to ever lower taxes.

I am the only man who can say he's been in Take That and at least two members of the Spice Girls.