"To secure peace is to prepare for war."

"May all who love the Lord, love you and those who don't love you, may the Lord give them a limp so you can see them coming."

"Necessity is the mother of invention."

"Truth is shorter than fiction."

"Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties."

"I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and that good Lord will forgive me, that's his."

"It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance."

"There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."

"People remember you better if you wear the same outfit."

"If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds."

"If a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient."

"Whose life is it anyway?"