But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.

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.

But our mercy has a cost, and it might be our lives.

I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel.

I started acting professionally at age 19.

If things are real, they're there all the time.

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.

I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth.

One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking

There is no redemption from hell.

When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards.

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my head.)