A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie.

Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.

When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.

Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.