He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.

I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.

Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.

The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.