Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Light is the shadow of God.

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

To be a believer in Christ Jesus is more powerful than any nuclear weapon

...to give a clear picture of the whole scene of Italian gastronomy.

The courage to be is the most difficult thing for any human being.

Think first class about everyone around you, and you'll receive first-class results in return.

Freedom is when you really get your own powers which are within you.

Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.

I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid.

Education must be a great equaliser in our society. It must be the tool to level the differences that our various social systems have created over the past thousands of years.

I was in the middle of a crossroads, which is a nice way of saying crisis, physically, emotionally and spiritually. You know the physical part. We just talked about it.

It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.