If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.

What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. At your peril do not try believing that!

The king is the man who can.