Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.

It is personalities not principles that move the age.

Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!

I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.

To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

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