To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.

Scars are the medals of success, not the glitters or the gold.

We do not teach history

Because I want to; because I must; because now and forever more this is where I belong to be.

I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls, The burial-ground God's-Acre.

Your great puddin' of a son don' need fattin' anymore Dursley, don't worry

The most sophisticated people I've ever known had just one thing in common: they were all in touch with their inner children.

Hobbes clearly proves, that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature.

The most important part of a player's body is above his shoulders.

The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.