A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.

Fair is the marigold, for pottage meet.

Thus shadow owes its birth to light.

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.

Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

Envy is a kind of praise.

You can only be called a hypocrite if you judge others first.

And when a lady's in the case, You know, all other things give place.

Nor love, not honor, wealth nor power, can give the heart a cheerful hour when health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies.

From kings to cobblers 'tis the same; Bad servants wound their masters' fame.

Forgiveness belongs to God.

I'm not trying to be mean, ' Casamir says.'Intent doesn't always matter.

I just wanted to do something that would freak people out. That's the best thing to do.

I can't be a slave to the machine, you feel like you're in the matrix.

We face a brutal enemy who will kill the innocent for one purpose and that is to gain control of the Middle East and to use the leverage of oil to bring down the West, and to attack us again.

In the love of a man and a woman is the look of God looking.

Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon.

No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.

I feel stronger, but physically I feel like I'm falling apart. Every day I get a new pain or ache and think, 'Oh, that will be a hip replacement in a couple of years'.

Date syrup is a natural sweetener that has wonderful richness and treacly depth; I drizzle it over semolina porridge.