“Rest assured, for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is to choose the right moment.”

There is but one genuine love potion – consideration.

Whom the gods love dies young.

By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.

All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.

A man that runs away may fight again.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Why should he who is scared be careful?

The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.

He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.

Conscience is a God to all mortals.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Of all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman.

It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at this date, when it has become second nature.

As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.

Destiny doesn’t exist. It’s God we need, and fast.

Content in our connectedness / we are brothers and sisters / after all.

It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.

Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.

Ruthless ‘brave’ men armed to the teeth/ with snares, tranquilizing guns, other.

It’s 24 hours of pretty bright daylight there right now, and I always try to do something nice for my crew every trip or in every other city. So I greeted them with a midnight cruise, but it looked like two in the afternoon.