Lord, grant us rest tonight, and if we must be wakeful, cheerful.

When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you'll labor like scholars over a bulldog's pedigree.

RICH I’m lamenting. I’ve lost my innocence.CROMWELL You lost that some time ago. If you’ve only just noticed, it can’t have been very important to you.

There is no telling what he will do! A bind, I know he will have to unglue. This day will surely reveal a clue. Beware of the Deetkatu!” Trinity, Meet the Little People…An Enchanting Adventure

Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.

Damnation seize my soul if I give you quarters, or take any from you.

I was lucky in the sense that I was never blessed with an overly reflective nature.

I believe each incoming freshman [in college] must be started at once on his own research project if we are to preserve his secret dream of greatness and make it come true.

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.

He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.