A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.

One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

Never promise more than you can perform.

I'm a perfectionist. I'm not going to cheat the people.

Don't think because there's a ring on your finger, you needn't try anymore.

I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!

Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak.

Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.

It's bad enough when married people bore one another, but it's much worse when only one of them bores the other.

Penology...has become torture and foolishness, a waste of money and a cause of crime...a blotting out of sight and heightening of social anxiety.

Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.