When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.

We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

Affliction may be for our edification and Christian development.

The prayer of a progressive man is like a work over compared to his unstable counterpart.

To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.-Albus Dumbledore to Harry Potter, page 299

I've held a brain in my hands, which is an extraordinary experience.

Where the guests at a gathering are well-acquainted, they eat 20 per cent more than they otherwise would.

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like

Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers.

I feel like I've always played within the rules. I would never do anything to break the rules. I believe in fair play.

My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.