We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.

I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.

The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.