The unknown always passes for the marvellous.

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.

In valor there is hope.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.

The most seditious is the most cowardly.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

She was always the first to love, first to encourage, first to forgive...for everyone but herself.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment or it will run to weeds.

No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back.

For decades to come the spy world will continue to be the collective couch where the subconscious of each nation is confessed.

I've just vowed my love for you. Have you nothing to say in return?" Duncan asked. "Thank you, husband.

Celluloid heroes never feel any pain.

I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.

You need humility to say 'I might be wrong.'

It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the British people are as determined upon self-government for India as they are themselves.

And you go into a supermarket and every tabloid is like, 'Pregnant and Alone!' Stuck in the 1950s ideal of how a woman should live her life. This brings out the fiery feminist in me.