There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.

If you can't give me your word of honour, will you give me your promise?

The LORD sees not as man sees; man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.

I never object to a certain degree of disputatiousness in a young man from the age of seventeen to that of four or five and twenty, provided I find him always arguing on one side of the question.

I grow gnomic. It is the last phase.

Despair young and never look back.

I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.