Anything is a temptation to those who dread it.

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.

We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

Music

Yes, I’ve killed! I’ve killed as indiscriminately as God! And yes, I will kill again. I must.

It isn't a mistake to have strong views. The mistake is to have nothing else.

I am basically a religious man.

The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.

Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

I'm real good with math, with numbers, like my dad was. I'm pretty much dialed in.

Love will break your heart,[...] but love can also mend it. Not many things in life are both the cause and the cure.

When the sun sets, candle starts seeing itself like the sun!

Life was a sorrowful throb of this Matter teaching it anguish, Teaching it hope and desire trod out too soon in the mire, Life the frail joy that regrets its briefness, life the long sorrow.