Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.

Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.

As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.

Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.

I'm so scared of flying.

Fish recognize a bad leader.

You need a stubborn belief in an idea in order to see it realised.

Give me oysters and beer, for dinner every day of the year, and I'll be fine.

I like roses, ones with sharp thorns. Pretty to look at but hurts to touch, that's like me.

I'm usually always thinking about the cons.

The Italians were eating with forks when the French were still eating each other.

My belief is that to have no wants is divine.