Flatterers look like friends as wolves like dogs.

I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.

Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her winged spirit Is feathered often times with heavenly words, And, like her beauty, ravishing and pure.

Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.

Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.

Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.

An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.

The best way to accomplish something is to just do it, and then find the courage afterward.

Love is Natures second sun.

Fair words never hurt the tongue.

Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.

Beauty was all I’d ever cared for. It was all that ever moved me.

Anti-digital mindsets are those “status quo” types of thinking, authoritarian attitude, and bureaucratic decision-making.

I love Sutton House in Clapton, a beautiful example of Tudor architecture.

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live.

New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker.

I definitely am a Twihard!

The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.

Sports and politics are basically all I really care about or talk about.

If you think you know it all, you really know nothing.

[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.