Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

A good husband makes a good wife at any time.

Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.

Those who know the least obey the best.

Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.

Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.

'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that.

Necessity, the mother of invention.

The truest art I would strive for in any work would be to give the page the same qualities as earth: weather would land on it harshly

We move through this world on paths laid down long before we are born.

When you slowly and gently get lost in love, you become infinite.

Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do.

I have a really wide range of interests and I've still got time to work out my exact direction.

He never said "Don't tell your mama." He never had to say it. I did not know how to tell anyone what I felt, what scared me and shamed me... (109)

The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world.

Television reflects our society in a more accurate way than at any time in the past.

David Fincher is one of the best directors I know, so I'm really curious to see it. Really curious, and I want to hear Daniel have the Swedish accent.

But we need not fear that we can lose any thing by the progress of the soul. The soul may be trusted to the end.