Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.

A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.

With a book he was regardless of time.

That said the conspirators:Tell us your secret and we will have betrayed you for a lifetime.

One of the advantages of atheism is takes so little of your time.

I persist in performing.

Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops.

It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.

So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.

Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.

Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.

I love working with actors. I do.