Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy.

The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.

The hardest thing to attain... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.

It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.

I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.

When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.

When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits on other people. (Notes on a Cellar Book)

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.

Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.

If you mean to scare women away from you, that speech can’t possibly work. Those threats? If I weren’t trying to hire you I’d be taking my clothes off right now.

Plant your flag, respectfully stand for truth, justice, and freedom for all.

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty miles an hour whatever he does whoever he is.

Or might the soul clone itself, create a perfect imitation of something yet to be defined? In this way, can a reflection be altered?

It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it.

Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting.

I'm doing everything I can to sabotage my career. It's a little thing called "fear of success".

The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.

Living in war is a co- existence with death.