Use law and physic only for necessity; they that use them otherwise abuse themselves unto weak bodies, and light purses; they are good remedies, bad businesses, and worse recreations.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

Reason can discover things only near,--sees nothing that's above her.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful.

Most people are too silly to be truly interested in any thing. They herd together like cattle, and do not know what is good for them.

Why... is human desire so unsatisfying?

Fate isn't set in stone. Free will can change everything

Nobody at home should feel like they are competing with somebody at work.

Anything imagined can be made real ... given sufficient genius.

Thanks to my work everything's going well; it's a great consolation.

Turn away from mischief. Again and again, turn away. Before sorrow befalls you.

She did as she felt, and she felt a great deal.

Ria snorted. “Leo’s pride rarely leaves the plains. What are they supposed to mate? The zebras?

You know, the Internet's made us more aware of what people think about us.