A liar is full of oaths.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved.

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

Perhaps we have stopped ourselves from being invented, from self-realization, by blaming others for our wordlessness.

I knew that I had reached the end of childhood once I realized that adults in my life didn't know anymore than I did.

The vision of milk and honey, it comes and goes. But the odor of cooking goes on forever.

I had my religious crisis after the war, not during the war.

I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox. But if I put on a white tails and tux like Fred Astaire, I still looked like a truck driver.

It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader.

A new child in the house is a huge tourist attraction. It's like Disneyland, except there the lines are longer and no one brings casseroles.

God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race.

Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.