Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

It's good to shut up sometimes.