We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.

To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.

I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them.

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.