“A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.”

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

One may be humble out of pride.

You can never loose a thing If it belongs to you.

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own.

Custom adapts itself to expediency.

I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.

It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.

Let’s just say I haven’t been keeping up the Gary Barlow persona; I’ve let loose.

What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There’s got to be something a little bit loose in there.