“It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.”

There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it.

Fortitude is a great help in distress.

Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

No blessing lasts forever.

It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.

You will not be a chip the richer.

For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.

How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.

There’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.

Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.

If you want to do something, do it!

I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.

They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.

It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.

Although man is not armed by nature nor is naturally swiftest in flight, yet he has something better by far – reason.

Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.

You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.

Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.

We expressed our readiness to join the US-led, international coalition against Daesh with special forces.

The test of any man lies in action.