I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.