Laughing, if loud, ends with a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty in the face.

Love is friendship set on fire.

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.

It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

God is pleased with no music below so much as with the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful persons.

The rottweiler stood his ground and waited for me to take the next step in the dance of ritualized intimidation. Instead, I leaped at him. Screw ritual. Now was not the time to stand on ceremony.

Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.

Life itself is the most wonderful fairytale.

For we must share if we would keep that blessing from above Ceasing to give we cease to have such is the law of love.

I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.

I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.

Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner.

Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.

Moriarty is arguably the most famous super-villain in terms of literature.

Love is the strange attractor, the allurement that holds the Uni-verse together.