The insupportable labor of doing nothing.

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.

Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.

Humor is a universal lanuage.

The last thing I remembered was joining the crew in a rendition of “Take to the Sky, ” but the rest of the time blurred after I drank absinthe with the Captain.

Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old.

Wake up and create a purpose for yourself. Don't ask the meaning of life, ask yourself the meaning of each given day.

It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country's problems together.

We will use some kind of option and we will throw the football. I hope it will be at our people.

Instead of going to war, we should put the money into arts and culture and let creative people define what Britain is.

Winners never talk about glorious victories. Thats because they're the ones who see what the battle field looks like afterwards. Its only the losers who have glorious victories.

In all things there must be order, but it must of such a kind as is possible to observe...to see a man burnt for doing as he thought right, harms the people, for this is a matter of conscience.