Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Always render more and better service than is expected of you no matter what your task may be.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time then I know it can't be much good.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths, they become facts or at best part of the public character, or at worst catchwords.

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves, and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.

I'm very boring.

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