Translation is at best an echo.

There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?

If you must commit suicide ... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.

There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.

Good ale, the true and proper drink of Englishmen. He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale, that is good ale.

We must walk before we run.

Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.

A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.

Never ride your horse more than five-and-thirty miles a day, always taking more care of him than of yourself; which is right and reasonable, seeing as how the horse is the best animal of the two.

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.

We can graciously survive life by faith.

I know you're more than fae." She just grinned. "It's true, I'm part fae, part awesome.

A true man never frets about his place in the world but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature and swings there as easily as a star.

What the hell is the sense of trying to hold the Democratic party together, if it's really a party of expediency, something that's put together every four years?

All we can do is try, do our best. Give as much time as we have to give, one day at a time. One breath at a time

Being unconscious is the ultimate disability.

For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands.

Future is about dematerialisation.

Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment, back here I can't even hold a job PARKING CARS!