The end-purpose of all art is enjoyment!

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.

To look forward to pleasure is also a pleasure.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.

The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship

Percy: You just hit the lord of the titans with a blue plastic hairbrush.

We have piped unto you and ye have not danced we have mourned to you and ye have not wept.

There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.

The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation.

The only term I won't accept is "genius."

I want the great masses of my people to take a greater pride in their personal appearance and to give their hair proper attention.

The tracing of a child's lineage and its name with reference to the father, though it has lasted for many thousands of years, has not become any the more natural or reasonable as a result.

It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.