What I have left is from my native spring; I've still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me to my banks.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

Dead men tell no tales.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

We only get either A Lesson or A Miracle.

They're great devotees of Noel Coward in England, of course, he's a favorite son, and so to play Coward in London is such fun, and anyway, the role is such a crazy lady. I just love doing that.

There are days when you just don't feel all that evil." You don't become a world-class villain overnight." -Dr. Impossible

I didn't have anything to apologize for.

It is only when men associate with the wicked with the desire and purpose of doing them good, that they can rely upon the protection of God to preserve them from contamination.

I haven't a great Jazz band and I don't want one.

Life does not have meaning through mere existence or acquisition or fun. The meaning of life is inherent in the connections we make to others through honor and obligation.

Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.

I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof.