Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.

Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.

Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit once in so many trials, argues the most splendid talents for missing.

We lie to protect our children, and in lying we expose them to the greatest of harms

For far too long, independent voices have been relegated to places where these ideas are not seen on a mass level.

Fidelity is the single most important element in solidly enduring marriages.

And feeling clever, I've always thought, is just a sigh away from being cheerful.

My dad liked how January went with Jones. My sisters' names are Jina and Jacey Jones.

After college I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities British television gave me as a director.

Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.

. . . if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men; . . .

It matters little who first arrives at an idea, rather what is significant is how far that idea can go

My whole family has been having trouble with immigrants ever since we came to this country.