Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. - Benjamin Disraeli

"Most people die with their music still locked up inside them."

"The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it."

"King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner."

"When I want to read a novel, I write one."

"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken."