He who despises life is his life's master.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved.

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.

The truth was...he was in love with her. Totally over-the-line, no-going-back, not-even-dead-would-he-part kind of shit.

Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.

He also said to tell you that Wolf misses you very much.

River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same.

There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.

I skied on Astroturf and PVC pipe on the slope in my backyard.

Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.

She saw him drenched with gasoline. She could actually feel the box of matches in her hand.

For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

Some things are better done than described.