The State not seldom tolerates a comparatively great evil to keep out millions of lesser ills and inconveniences which otherwise would be inevitable and without remedy.

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.

We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

The Holy Scripture speaks life.

That somehow dreams are a blurred line between here and there, like a meeting room in a prison. You’re both in the same room, yet on different sides and really, in different worlds.

Regardless of what you've been through we all process energy differently.

Because any guilt the sizeof a speck of dust, or shame, can crush even the best of men, in mountains of weight

Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.

I have nothing to do with Russia.

The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.

Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.

For me, the goal wasn't to turn the stand-up special on its head, but to do what I do specifically, and hopefully that reads as something new.

I hope people'll find out pretty quickly that the guy they saw for 10 years was my sense of humor the whole time.