I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.

The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.

I always assumed everybody shared my love for overcast skies. It came as a shock to find out that some people prefer sunshine.

The Bible is no lazy man's book! Much of its treasure, like the valuable minerals stored in the bowels of the earth, only yield up themselves to the diligent seeker.

I think it's my nature to engage in things that are more difficult.

I dont know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.

I never thought people would be mortally offended by the sounds I was making.

For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

You can't write the same book twice. Though I've been in historical musical situations, I can't go back and do that again. And though I run into artistic crises, they keep my life interesting.

For real self esteem is not derived from the great things you've done, the things you won. The mark you've made - but an appreciation of yourself for what you are.

All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.