It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.

In valor there is hope.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.

The most seditious is the most cowardly.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

Poets, you always write about women worth dying for. Write, for a change, something about the ones worth living for!

Every time before you speak, look in the mirror and be sure not to copy someone else.

I never thought the brightest smile would come from a mouth without teeth.

If you wish to view this as a cautionary tale, be my guest.

People are ready to take the good things into their minds! Give them good and right ideas

Letter writing can be seen as a gift because someone has taken his/her time to write and think and express love.

O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that.

To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.

Sometimes when someone says something stupid, my friends and I just read the reviews out loud and collapse with laughter at the stupidity of it all.

Once you learn how to do something, you don't lose it. Unless you die.