To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.

Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.

To obtain a woman who loves you, you must treat her as if she didn't.

It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them.

Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them.

Can love and peace live in the same heart? Youth is unhappy because it is faced with this terrible choice; love without peace, or peace without love.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.

My flesh winced, in cowardice, from such a death.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Even while we hate, we still have that deep unusual  compassion for our rivals, and they hate it when they realize that we are feeling sorry for them.

Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.

And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside some teen readers poetry. It would be fun, and really wonderful to get their stuff out there.

Both force and money are impotent against ideas.

The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.

The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings.

What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being.

He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.