“Accurst be he that first invented war.”

There is no sin but ignorance.

All live to die, and rise to fall.

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

Our swords shall play the orators for us.

Love is not full of pity (as men say) But deaf and cruel, where he means to pray.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

Time doth run with calm and silent foot, Shortening my days and thread of vital life.

Lone women, like to empty houses, perish.

I’m armed with more than complete steel, – The justice of my quarrel.

Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast. What shall I do to shun the snares of death?

Virginity, albeit some highly prize it, Compared with marriage, had you tried them both, Differs as much as wine and water doth.

It lies not in our power to love or hate, for will in us is overruled by fate.

If we say that we have no sin, We deceive ourselves, and there’s no truth in us. Why then belike we must sin, And so consequently die. Ay, we must die an everlasting death.

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

Make me immortal with a kiss.

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don’t take it too seriously.

Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

The most marvellous instrument which men have yet invented, the telescope and the steam engine not excepted.

She was impossibly beautiful. If she didn’t exist, she’d have to be invented.

If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.