Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Handsome is that handsome does.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

Sounds of Time rattles the silence of Reality. An illusion pierces through similar existence and creates a conflict zone.

I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

You can be as critical as you want of Black Lives Matter. I'm critical of him, too. But to say that they have caused shooting of police officers, I think is a bridge too far.

This is my Father's world: O let me ne'er forget That though the wrong Seems oft so strong, God is the Ruler yet.

The idea of selling a Cezanne to buy a Morisot seems explosively contentious.

I don't believe in geniuses, I believe in hard work.

Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.

When you see a guy flying into the air on fire, that's not me, obviously. I do all the water tricks, though.

And it [acting] was exciting to me. And scary.