Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

Pour, varlet, pour the waterThe water steaming hot!A spoonful for each man of usAnother for the pot!

His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run though not to soar.

The highest intellects like the tops of mountains are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.

We’re fine.’ A few feet away, Aurum snarled quietly, which meant Nico was lying.

Humility is the freedom to stop trying to be what we're not, or pretending to be what we're not, and accepting our 'appropriate smallness.

No one demands more caution than a spy, and when someone has the skeleton key to minds, counter him by leaving the key of caution inside, on the other side of the keyhole.

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.

Fear is something you have to throw into a corner. Constantly. Because it never goes away.

I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.

Justice is what you get when you run out of money.

My front door had seen jean skirts, dresses, even a see-through tube dress over a string bikini. A handful of times, spackled-on makeup and glitter lotion. Never pajamas.

Eventually writing became more interesting to me than acting.

The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is... present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful.