Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - There is no book so bad that it is not profitable on some part.

However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.

The happier time, the quicker it passes

And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.

It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas

Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.

There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit

Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.

It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.

Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.

You’ve got to have confidence in the very thing that makes you unique – then wait for the world to catch up

Secrets had the power to kill a marriage, she said. Nonsense, Sylvie said, it was secrets that could save a marriage.

We only pass everything by like a transposition of air.

Anyone can win two fights in one night, but it is the third fight that tells you if you have steel balls or not.

You don't really drive in cabs in L.A. unless you're broke or homeless - or if you're broke and driving the cab.

I must try to live in society and yet remain untouched by its pitfalls.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

I think a lot of tunes can suffer from being so simple, so either they get over-complicated or their simplicity means the simple way to lay them down becomes the difficulty.

You wonder if God doesn't have an answering machine to screen out the prayers of the venal and the boring? And in which category has he placed you?