That men should kill one another for want of somewhat else to do, which is the case of all volunteers in war, seems to be so horrible to humanity that there needs no divinity to control it.

Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful and unsociable as thunder and lightning, being in themselves all storm and tempest; but quiet and easy natures are like fair weather, welcome to all.

The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth, and parts not with it but for the full value.

Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him.

No man is so insignificant as to be sure his example can do no hurt.

Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother.

If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us.

Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and of nature itself.

I realized that I'm a child."William looked point-blank at her chest. "No.

I had a naiveté that I would remember the things that I had written already, but I was getting lost in the forest of my own ideas and having to find my way out.

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.

I'm not a politician. And I don't want to be.

You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.

A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption.

He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.

To virginity is awarded the tribute of the highest beauty

Don't fear the enemy that attacks you, but the fake friend that hugs you.

The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?