Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

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.

Japanese had never seen a Western-style circus, and most of them had probably never seen foreigners, either.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?

Death and life are, for most of us, too complex to comprehend, but Alex Lemon can pretty casually, accurately, and marvelously correlate them to heavy metal and birthday cake.

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring

There's something really nice about missing the person you're with. To have someone be apart enough to force independence and to also look forward to seeing that person.

When you know your not going to die, you have to ask yourself... What's the highest and best use for myself.

All dramatic realism is somewhat sadistic; an audience is persuaded to watch something that makes it uncomfortable and from which no relief is offered - no laughter, no tears, no purgation.

It's no good giving my heart and my Soul because you already have these. So I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.