Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

Memory... is an internal rumour.