Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.

One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.