There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.

From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.