I can resist everything except temptation.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself

Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.