Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

Dead men tell no tales.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

Fortune befriends the bold.

I must say, cowboy, I'm impressed. I was worried you could only handle eight seconds at a time.

Most commanders wanted as many good sources of information as possible. MacArthur was focused on limiting and controlling his sources of intelligence.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

I definitely have a little attraction to bad guys, but they have to be sweethearts underneath. After all, I like to be treated well.

Trials are nothing else but the forge that purifies the soul of all its imperfections.

We are not accusing you of being illegal, we are accusing you of being immoral.

I don't want to change the world, I don't want the world to change me.

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.