To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time faith is not enough a police force is needed as well.

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts or to empire that it is destructive of both as all their history shows for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

We know that in September we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.

I'm a performer comedian entertainer writer and director.

The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

If men would consider not so much where they differ as wherein they agree there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

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