Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.

Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.

A man will blithely do in politics what he would kick a man downstairs for in ordinary life.

Lord Randolph Churchill was the chief mourner at his own protracted funeral.

We regard our parties as interesting groups of gladiators.

Lloyd George is a one-eyed fellow in blinkers.

images precede the real, making and shaping it into what we come to name and know as the real, producing it, fabricating it, into the worlds we come to inhabit.

It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it.

The meetings least attended in our churches today are the ones whose only attraction is God.

Honestly, I was offended by the whole process.

I think the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is as great as it is because it's become it's a labor of love. They love what they do.

I did it at night because I loved it. I never did it to make money, as a job. I just did it because I had to.

We have this one life to offer; there is no second chance.

A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.

The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.

These religions that are so freighted with their own pomposity are no better than inspired guesses.