Faith, Sir, we are here today and gone tomorrow.

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

Fantastic fortune thou deceitful light, That cheats the weary traveler by night, Though on a precipice each step you tread, I am resolved to follow where you lead.

Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?

I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

People who want to make a million borrow a million first

You will know it is love when the need can't be met by yourself or God.

We need to have a strong economy that can create employment opportunities and that can also produce the revenue that we need to defend our country at home and abroad.

It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written

It was a given in our family that my father was a grocer so that I wouldn't have to be.

No doubt men may easily think too little of God the Father, and God the Spirit, but no man ever thought too much of Christ.

Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.

It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.

That's to me what always is compelling about villains. I am much more interested in how they think than in what they even do.