Niggards are oftentimes neat.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

Do it because you WANT to, not just because you HAVE to. When you do what you want, you create an Unstoppable POWER.

Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.

I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

What's my favourite food? One you order out.

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.

Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.

I know a man who, when he saw a woman of striking beauty, praised the Creator for her. The sight of her lit within him the love of God.

I've made out more this season on a family-friendly show than ever in my actual life.

No one chains a slave without chaining himself.

No man can be fully efficient if he expects praise or appreciation for what he does.