Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

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

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

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 only way to pray is to pray and the way to pray well is to pray much.

It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.

Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my dear comrade.

Though ye loue not to bye the pyg in the poke,Yet snatche ye at the poke, that the pyg is in,Not for the poke, but the pyg good chepe to wyn.

Do what is right, and the reward will be immediate and multitudinous. Think what is right, and your authority will grow.

The thoughts you think will irradiate you as though you are a transparent vase.

I never talk about anything to do with my sexuality.

And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty.

Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind

But classical music is not entertainment, and I feel viciously strong about that. Classical music is forever. Entertainment is something that is here today, and may be gone tomorrow.