If thou expect death as a friend, prepare to entertain it; if thou expect death as an enemy, prepare to overcome it; death has no advantage, but when it comes a stranger.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

Reason can discover things only near,--sees nothing that's above her.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful.

On the path to Conquer the throne, some of your pawns must die...If your eyes aim the big kill, you must learn to eat humble pie.

Only those who live forever can act like there's time to waste.

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

At that age, it's one of the worse things in the world to wake up and not see your bike where you left it.

There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.

The ability of people to reach their own news sources now, and create different views, is really unbelievable, and [populism] may be part of this.

Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar?

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin with his big-swollen face?