“The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.”

Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.

It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.

See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.

Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.

I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.

Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.

What is deferred is not avoided.

Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men’s hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.

The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.

Oh! blame not the bard.

Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.

Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.

We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

It’s Satan’s delight to tell me that once he’s got me, he will keep me. But at that moment I can go back to God.

I am delighted at Des’s support in these elections. And thank him for his rewrite of the lyrics of Send in the Clowns which we are planning to sing at our South East conference.

All I can say is if the part doesn’t delight me in some way, or I can’t feel any compassion for it, I just can’t do it.

To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.

I’m delighted. I don’t know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It’s a great feeling.

but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane.

In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.

Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.