Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

I never change, except in my affections.

He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins; that the painted image might be seared with the lines of suffering and thought, and that he might keep all the delicate bloom and loveliness of his then just conscious boyhood.

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.