Virtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down.

Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.

How happy is he born and taught; that serves not another's will, whose armor is his honest thought and truth, his utmost skill.

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.

An Ambassadore is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country, a news writer is a man of no virtue who lies at home for himself.

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight.

Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries.

Well building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.

You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own — What are you when the rose is blown?

By weaker accents, what's your praise When Philomel her voice doth raise?

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

...you can use words if you wish, but I'm warning you - I've learned how to read your heart ...

One forgot, one forgot. What hold had one on the past? The present moment was a little travelling in darkness.

Relations were never good (how comfortable can you really be with a race that sees you as a nutritious part of a complete breakfast).

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'

Lonely children probably wrote the Bible.

Poetry became my doctor, my lover.

We have all the numbers we need to turn this system on its head.

That earns him a smack with my book bag. "Ow." He clutches his arm. "What do you have in there? Books?" A grin snakes across his face. "I like my women feisty." He adds, "I like my broken.

I think Putin has already gotten used to the idea of Obama and his secretary of state, John Kerry, making noise - it just doesn't seem to impress Moscow at all.

I don't know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be me.