A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.

Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.

An artist is a person who thinks more than there is to think, feels more than there is to feel, and sees more than there is to see.

All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.

A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.

Entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death.

It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.