Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

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.

If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

I think in times of crisis it's the artists' responsibility to dig a little deeper.

As an older person, I do feel an obligation to tell the story about what was really happening in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, as I saw it.

Mark Twain married the daughter of one of New York State's leading Abolitionists, Jervis Langdon, who helped Frederick Douglass who became the great Negro leader to escape from slavery.

I'm not hard to get along with.

Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are fascinating.

I used to tell moms that for the sake of their well-being they had to put themselves first. But I know now that's not always possible.

Frankly, I don’t care what others say.

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.