Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
In war there is no prize for runner-up.
For greed all nature is too little.
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.