“The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.”

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.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Art is man’s refuge from adversity.

The workman still is greater than his work.

At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men’s troubles and that will comfort you.

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

The good man makes others good.

No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.

The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light.

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

Of all wild beasts on earth or in sea, the greatest is a woman.

Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.

For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.

Don’t use it for sexual high jinks. It can get ugly – trust me. Also be careful when flushing.

For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence

I’m afraid I did not pray hard enough last night.

There exists a meaning, hidden from day to day, but accessible in moments of greatest attentiveness, in those moments when consciousness loves the world.

That fear of missing out on things makes you miss out on everything.

If only Jesus’ followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity.