“History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.”

The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.

Where envy reigns virtue can’t exist, and generosity doesn’t go with meanness.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

Think before thou speakest.

Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.

Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.

Other men’s pains are easily borne.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

Beware, gentle knight – the greatest monster of them all is reason.

Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

God exalts the man who humbles himself.

A good name is better than bags of gold.

It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

What thou seest, speak of with caution.

That city in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.

Speech is the mirror of action.

Heaven and hell is right now. You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.

I have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.