And filled the air with barbarous dissonance.

The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in remembrance more than things long past.

Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.

The English Infantry is the most formidable in Europe, but fortunately there is not much of it.

Against the darkness outer God's light his likeness takes, And he from the mighty doubter The great believer makes.

When I'm right no-one remembers, when I'm wrong no-one forgets.

They received the use of the five operations of the Lord and in the sixth place he imparted them understanding, and in the seventh speech, an interpreter of the cogitations thereof.

Marital problems? You don't need a new wife, you need a new life!

Forbidden fruit is sweet.

I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

God is a verb.

A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.

If by fire Of sooty coal th' empiric alchymist Can turn, or holds it possible to turn, Metals of drossiest ore to perfect gold.

The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster.