The past is an educational toy for the present. It should be discarded the moment its usefulness is outgrown.

There is no point in poverty if it does not make a rich man, observing it, feel better.

A dutiful wife enables a good man to add her hands to his own for self-applause.

It takes a lot of wind to sail a leaky boat.

Marriage is the legal method devised to end love without pain.

He’s an even-tempered stallion. What he lacks in stamina he makes up for in speed, kind of like most of the men I’ve slept with.

After all, you are a hero and everything.

There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively.

The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.

Yesterday for contemplation, today for action.

Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.

Physical geography and geology are inseparable scientific twins.

I don't actually like dates. I get awkward as I never know what to do.

I always have a contract with a character. Even when he's unappealing. The contract is to give him his due. To tell his story. And to keep his secrets.

It is our firm conviction that mankind will live the happier when it has learned to live with music more worthily. Whoever works to promote this end, in one way or another, has not lived in vain.