Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend.

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.

When it comes time to do your own life you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under.

Taking risks and making choices is what makes life so exciting.

Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous.

It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.

I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.

Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.

Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.

Little people belittle people. Great people make people feel great.

How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error.

He and I had a bridge that no one else traveled that made us artistic lovers, passionate without a touch of the flesh. He made me thrive, and valuing that, I could do nothing that would endanger it.