Variety is the soul of pleasure.

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

Fantastic fortune thou deceitful light, That cheats the weary traveler by night, Though on a precipice each step you tread, I am resolved to follow where you lead.

Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!

Faith, Sir, we are here today and gone tomorrow.

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?

I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

One major cost of self-deception is that we use painful life experiences to justify being non-ideal versions of ourselves.

If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.

They’d seen his deepest secrets. They knew who he was, what he was. But they didn’t seem to care. No … they cared more. They weren’t judging him. They were concerned.

The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses.

You are stronger than you realize. You are more capable than you can imagine.

Now that I am no longer President, I find I can no longer win every game of golf I play.

If you understand something, you understand that it is obvious.

If every inhabitant of a liberal democracy believes in liberal democracy, then it doesn't matter what creed or colour they are.

Don't underestimate Camp Half-Blood.

I don't understand women who try to be glamour queens.