I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.

Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.