The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth The best of all were never to be born.
God will pardon me. It is His trade.
Silence is the essential condition of happiness.
There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.
He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave.