One is often guilty by being too just.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved.

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.

Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.

The elections are rigged. It's a totally rigged system. The only way we can lose, in my opinion.

Being anti-social can also mean that you're aware of how annoying it is to be social.

A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.

When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his finger on the pulse of the great secret and the great answer.

Everybody who is an actor has been acting since they were three.

A French poet famously referred to the aroma of certain cheeses as the ‘pieds de Dieu’—the feet of god. Just to be clear: foot odor of a particularly exalted quality, but still—foot odor.

There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.

There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.