Never write a letter and never destroy one.

Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.

Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.

First, all means to conciliate; failing that, all means to crush.

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire.

If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.

Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.

Deception is the knowledge of kings.

Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.

I'm sick and tired of having a forest and a torture chamber in my house... I want to have a nice quiet flat with ordinary doors and windows and a wife inside it, like anybody else!

Ham shook his head, sitting down, pouring himself something to drink. "I don't get it, El. Why'd she attack him?" "She's loony," Spook said.

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.

Whenever people go out of their way to help other people - there's power and beauty in our diversity.

I was always curious. And I always wondered why I had to die to go to Heaven.

Rappers make what's in, in. If we want to bring back something like Jordache, we just say it and the girls start wearing it. We have a lot of pull.

We all want to make a difference, to live in peace, to have joy each morning that we get to live this day and see what it brings.

There is one thing more serious than merely to not believe, and that is to not care.

Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man.