You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.

Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, "How well he spoke" but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, "Let us march.

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.

I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?

Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.

A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears.

One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.

No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.

Never get in the middle of someone else's quicksand.

For a man with an education the world is a wide place and the opportunities are many

Giving men marriage tips is a little like offering Vikings a free booklet titled How Not to Pillage.

Unpopular but right is what you're going for.

Grissom is pretty asexual. He's not that interested in anything other than work - except for Lady Heather. She's the closest to getting his heart of anyone.