Cobbles and kettledrums! ...I hope this madness isn't going to end in a moonlit climb and broken necks.

Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.

Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.

A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.

Being nice doesn’t make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize how distasteful some people can be.

Total war is the most humane in the long run.

Remember He is the artist and you are the picture. You can’t see it, you can't see your true self. So quietly submit to be painted.