Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.

A honest man is seldom a vagrant.

I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.

Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.

Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.

Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.

I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.

Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband's private mill.

In doing nothing men learn to do evil.

Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.

Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.

Don’t fear criticism

Faith may want answers, but somehow it is able to survive without them.

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair.

Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.

Free discussion requires an atmosphere unembarrassed by any suggestion of authority or even respect.

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]

so I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.

I wouldn't be worried to sit next to someone with Ebola virus on the Tube as long as they don't vomit on you or something. This is an infection that requires very close contact.