Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

A honest man is seldom a vagrant.

I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.

Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.

Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.

Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.

I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.

Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband's private mill.

In doing nothing men learn to do evil.

Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.

Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.

Love consists of a commitment which limits one's freedom - it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one's freedom on behalf of another.

Expect little, and we live up to the expectation. Expect a lot, and we stretch and grow to meet the expectation.

As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere.

It's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture.

When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world! "I had you and I have you now no more.

The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

I go and film 50 people in Israel, 50 people in Russia, and 50 people in Romania, in Paris, because I really like to get some particles of something real.

The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.

Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.

But, enough of that for now. Let’s get lost again in the starry night.