Necessity inspires the fatal thought.

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

Liars are always most disposed to swear.

First thoughts are not always the best.

A usurper always distrusts the whole world.

If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

I follow my heart for I can trust it.

Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.

I never lie- except for the few times I do in fact lie, but it's never intentional, and i'm totally telling the truth right now" She raised her right hand "promise".

What is the difference between method and device? A method is a device which you use twice.

Every disability is imagined. Every achievement is an experience.

Reading is not work, not a chore, not a drudgery; reading is the most joyful thing, yet, in the world.

I know well that the greater and more beautiful the work is, the more terrible will be the storms that rage against it.

Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good, or that he cannot swim or shoots badly with a rifle, but to touch upon his sense of humour is to give him mortal affront.

As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun.

I've never seen a postcard of my work in a museum.