Life and the Universe show spontaneity;Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!Churches and creeds are lost in the mists;Truth must be sought with the Positivists.

Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind.

There are two classes of men; those who are content to yield to circumstances and who play whist; those who aim to control circumstances, and who play Chess

O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.

Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his physicians cannot cure.

There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier; Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist — Then he was a Man and a Positivist.

Come on, " I say, "let's go be star-crossed lovers and court disaster.

This is the crepe. This is the cider. This is how we live and eat.

When you swallow that pride, Eve, take care you don't choke on it.

I guess I probably see myself as a director. If I had to choose, I think that that's the aspect of the process that I'm most excited by.

Rachmaninov has some kind of weird dark edge to his music which I don't think I've heard with any other kind of music before.

We're not going to act in a soft way for what we believe needs to be done.

For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.

Age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits.

If what the science tells us about climate change is correct, then unabated it will result in catastrophic consequences for our world.