What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew.

He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself.

Nature has given the opportunity of happiness to all, knew they but how to use it.

Whoever desires is always poor.

Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.

Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position.

The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.

Death is the great leveller.

A severe war lurks under the show of peace.

In sleep, when fancy is let loose to play, Our dreams repeat the wishes of the day.

Luxury, that alluring pest with fair forehead, which, yielding always to the will of the body, throws a deadening influence over the senses, and weakens the limbs more than the drugs of Circe's cup.

Really, nobody was there?” I asked.“Well, nobody important, ” he said, putting his glasses back on and blinking.

Telling the world you are trying is not doing.

This is just me. Get used to it.

You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.

Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Éowyn!

When I'm in the car sometimes it's like, 'Yeah, man, just put on the pop music.' You know what I mean? I don't want to listen to Tom Waits.

I like comedies, I like thrillers, I like love stories. Everything is beautiful; it depends if the film is good, who cares? Everything is interesting.

There is no failure, only a process which is leading us to become the greatest version of ourselves.

You will come home before the leaves have fallen from the trees.

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.