Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.

A honest man is seldom a vagrant.

I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.

Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.

Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.

I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.

Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband's private mill.

In doing nothing men learn to do evil.

Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.

Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.

For some people there is no comfort without pain. Thus; we define salvation through suffering. Hence, why we choose people who we know aren't right for ourselves.

please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.

No one has ever achieved greatness without dreams.

Don't I always tell you to never listen to me?

I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

We expect the states to show us whether or not we're achieving simple objectives-like literacy, literacy in math, the ability to read and write.

Of course, fighting is not going to be as graceful as movie fighting. I don't like it to be ugly and I don't like it to be one big brawl or people clobbering each other.

An urban novelist never minds a little decay.

To teach is to show what is possible; to learn is to make yourself possible.

The world's state sponsor of terrorism is now on path, sanctioned by the United States, to create nuclear weapons. We are going to make it possible for them.