You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.

In valor there is hope.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.

The most seditious is the most cowardly.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason.

Did you notice there aren’t any average kids anymore—only Gifted and Disposable?

Obviously the choices of other people affect our lives, but we are the primary creators of our experience.

She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.

My poems tend to be more celebratory and lyrical, and the novels so far pretty dark. Poetry doesn't seem to me to be an appropriate tool for exploring that.

Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.

Better late than never."-Dork Diaries

I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes are open, because of the tears that pour from them unceasingly.

Charles Barkley was a big teddy bear.

Go ahead and do what you're doing.