Ability comprehends the power of doing in general, without specifying the quality or degree.

Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.

From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains; These first induce him the vile trash to try, Then lend his name, that other men may buy.

Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.

Oh, rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain; Who from the dark and doubtful love to run, And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun.

An infatuated man is not only foolish, but wild.

Void of all honor, avaricious, rash, The daring tribe compound their boasted trash Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill; All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill.

Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I've done it from my youth.

In idle wishes, fools supinely stay. Be there a will and wisdom finds a way.

The coward never on himself relies, But to an equal for assistance flies.

A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.

Live passionately.

I want to believe that memories, even sad and painful ones, should not be forgotten forever.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

When you're playing Shakespeare, it forces you to think and feel and speak all at the same time, which really is what acting is. It expands your imagination and expands your size of thinking.

Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man.

What's at the end of a million dollars? Zero, zero, zero... nothing. A circle with a hole in it.

If I saw an ugly bird but she was a celebrity, she wouldn't attract me at all.

I'm not a person who worries too much about what I've done.

Aging allows us to drop the baggage. It is only through life experiences that our incredible power can be brought forward in all its glory.

To love someone means that you sometimes are fulfilled the most by putting thier deepest desires above your own.