Even kings but play; and when their part is done, some other, worse or better, mounts the throne.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

Dead men tell no tales.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

Fortune befriends the bold.

The great novels are deterrents. A Merck's manual on how not to live.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly

I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.

You know, a dog can snap you out of any kind of bad mood that you're in faster than you can think of.

It should not be believed that a march of three or four days in the wrong direction can be corrected by a countermarch. As a rule, this is to make two mistakes instead of one.

A Warrior knows that the ends do not justify the means. Because there are no ends, there are only means.

If you arent focused on success, youre failing.

In insecure relationships, we disguise our vulnerabilities so our partner never really sees us.

I don't wanna be a role model. I'd like to be an inspiration.

I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over the common details.