People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

We are the Dragon-Hearted.

Concentrate on the here and now. The future can take care of itself.

I have a bad habit of picking up books about drugs, but that's better than having a drug habit, I think.

Forever and ever, brother, hail. Forever and ever, farewell.

Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long run.

I guess that's why they call it Hell.

At the heart of all things is love.

Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or out of place; if we do not understand him, it is our own fault.

Life is the art of being well deceived.

A speech is like an airplane engine. It may sound like hell but you've got to go on.