The smaller the drink the clearer the head.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

Go beyond the sky!

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death.

Above our heads exists an infinity of unfathomable fantasiastics: and fields of future fireside fables trail close behind

Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.

Feminist humor raises consciousness. And the reason it's funny is because it stands something on its head. Goodness knows you've got to have a sense of humor if you do feminism full-time, I tell you.

I personally translated the word 'vendetta' as Italian for 'What do you mean, "you want to see other women"?

The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired.

Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.

He can't fly around tall buildings, or outrun a speeding train, the only talent he seems to have is leaving a nasty stain!