"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."

"The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past."

"Don't try to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

"The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail."

"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."

"Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."

"Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me."

"War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men."

"The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work."

"Veni, vidi, vici.[I came, I saw, I conquered]"

"PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters."

"Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man."