When Gold argues the cause, eloquence is impotant.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.

One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

Never promise more than you can perform.

I could not think without writing.

I am your stone of necessity calling up spirits from rain puddles—your Magus of words

The real funny thing is, whether the demons exist or not at all in your life, it's nothing to do whether you believe or not to one, none nor both of them.

It doesn't seem to make any sense, but then it never does! It's usually only afterwards when the pieces finally fit together, that you're left standing there thinking how obvious it always was.

Political courage is not political suicide.

Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.

But men and women, getting along, it's a joke. We have completely different brains, it's a completely different thing.

As much as we pretend otherwise, we want what's comfortable, and we're afraid of the different. We're afraid of change.

He who loves not flowers, has lost all love and fear of God.

Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light.