“He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.”

You will not be a chip the richer.

For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.

It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.

How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.

There’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.

Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.

If you want to do something, do it!

I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.

Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.

It is much easier to begin than to end.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.

I count him lost, who is lost to shame.

The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Whilst I’m still young and I still have the looks

I’m known for playing bad guys, so this was an interesting departure from what I’m known to play, which is a softer, more likable, affable character.

He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.

Life is one long struggle in the dark.

The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.

If you want to have a finished product, at some point you have to say “enough.”

They’re dedicated, patriotic Americans. They will work with any president. They want to have a good relationship with every president.

The mask is torn off, while the reality remains