A man may be a great statesman, and yet dislike his wife, and like somebody else's. A man may be a great hero, and yet he may have an unseemly passion, or an unpaid tailor. But the British public does not understand this. ... It thinks, unhappily or happily as you may choose to consider, that genius should keep the whole ten commandments. Now, genius is conspicuous for breaking them.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Excess always carries it's own retributions.

age is nothing but death that is conscious.

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.

What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?

Great men always have dogs.