The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

Nothing is our except time.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.

If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

What paper planes and empty seats most have in common is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.

The best characters are always wretchedly flawed

The trouble with crying over an onion is that once the chopping gets you started and the tears begin to well up, the next thing you know you just can’t stop!

Weeds are luckier than flowers because they are not killed for their beauties!

In the only way that pain can be truly remembered, through a new pain.

The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous.

It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.

I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.