"Death comes along like a gas bill..." - Quote by Woodrow Wilson

“No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know”

“The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.”

“No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.”

“Death changes nothing but the mask that covers our faces.”

“People die and people cry people want me dead.”

“There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.”

“Verily, chemistry is not a splitting of hairs when you have got half a dozen raw Irishmen in the laboratory.”

“I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.”

“The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.”