Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.