Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!

I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.

Enough of that, you damned conspirators, you will have us hanged a great deal sooner than we will.

And yet Praecursoris is not punished the same way, only because it is not practical, and he is needed for breeding?

Let it be your business every day in the secrecy of the inner chamber to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.

Liberty has as many chains as an iron-monger's shop, and as rusty.

American Lives Are Not More Important Than Other People's Lives

The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.

Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer. Next day the fatal precedent will plead; thus on, til wisdom is pushed our of life.

I think every writer should have tattooed backwards on his forehead, like ambulance on ambulances, the words 'everybody needs an editor.

Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time.

To be and not to be, that is the answer.

I don't watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched 'The King's Speech' on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

Baseball is not like football, basketball where a momentum is something made. You don't really have that kind of momentum in baseball.