Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

Boys. Drau or mortal, they were all the same.

My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.

A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.

When I was seven or eight I was really into Cream, really into Led Zeppelin.

The claims of no people, according to established policy and usage, are respected by any nation, until they are presented in a national capacity.

The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.

The reason doctors are so dangerous is that they believe in what they are doing.

Today evil spirits are seen as negativity which floats around the Earth in large quantities.

I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.

I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed.