Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.

Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.

"But" is a fence over which few leap.

It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.

The college recruiting process shouldn't be about how many schools have interest in you or how many offers you get, it should be about you finding the right school.

I was listening to a lot of Norwegian black metal and death metal. There's a great history to Norwegian black metal. That music is very dark and violent, but it's also beautiful.

Be strict with yourself but least reproachful of others and complaint is kept afar.

I usually spend the hiatus of 'Dexter' in New York in a way to balance things.

Smiles are the soul's kisses.

Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.

You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.