Nature has given the opportunity of happiness to all, knew they but how to use it.

What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew.

He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself.

Whoever desires is always poor.

Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.

Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position.

The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.

Death is the great leveller.

A severe war lurks under the show of peace.

In sleep, when fancy is let loose to play, Our dreams repeat the wishes of the day.

Luxury, that alluring pest with fair forehead, which, yielding always to the will of the body, throws a deadening influence over the senses, and weakens the limbs more than the drugs of Circe's cup.

When nothing becomes the vocalThen nothing becomes the focalAnd nothing’s becoming at all

I don't say Valancy deliberately murdered these lovers as she outgrew them. One simply faded away as another came. Things are very convenient in this respect in Blue Castles.

My mother-in-law has come round to our house at Christmas seven years running. This year we're having a change. We're going to let her in.

I know of no case in which you are to have a judicial proceeding, by which a man is to be deprived of any part of his property, without his having an opportunity of being heard.

Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.

Much can be learned in play that will afterwards be of use when the circumstances demand it.

Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.

I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.

Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.