"Although the most acute judges of the witches, & even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was nonexistent. It is thus with all guilt."

"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."

"I mistrust all systemizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity."

"Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them."

"Only sick music makes money today."

"How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy."

"The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo."

"A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she adjust to prejudice and discrimination."

"Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something."

"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on."

"The medium is the message."

"It might be said that Lord Rosebery outlived his future by ten years and his past by more than twenty."