“Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.”

A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.

Exuberance is beauty.

Without Contraries is no Progression.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

Energy is eternal delight.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.

Expect poison from the standing water.

If a thing loves, it is infinite.

Dip him in the river who loves water.

The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.

The most sublime act is to set another before you.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

No matter how the wind howls. The mountain cannot bow to it

So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.

We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.

The moon stays bright when it doesn’t avoid the night.

Cultivate your curves – they may be dangerous but they won’t be avoided.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.

Avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.