Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole.

If you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out!

Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?

How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant

There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.

Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.