The worst sin... is... to be indifferent.

Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.

Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.