Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced.

The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.

The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.

The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.

Philosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

He supposed that, except musicians, every one thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.

I think your vision gets better as you get older.

If nothing on the inside spoils, nothing on the outside will either. This is the hidden secret of this world.

Real choices – the ones that changed you and shaped you – were never made with the head, but on the beat of a heart that saw a future it couldn't live without.

At least it's working out because Cheddar is sort of obsessed with me, or at least very interested, which in the world of felines counts as obsessive behavior.

Why does any martyr cooperate with his judases?...We see a game beyond the endgame...As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of us you kill, you will never kill your successor.

I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others.

It is the fashion these days to make war, and presumably it will last a while yet.

Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.

I don’t want to spread myself out to other games that don’t have the passion… You know, like the Aliens game.

And I Jack, the Pumpkin King, have grown so tired of the same old thing.