"Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught."

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

"Gold is worse poison to a man's soul, doing more murders in this loathsome world, than any mortal drug."

"Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie."

"In a false quarrel there is no true valour."

"Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom."

"A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools."

"A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century."

"A long time ago, there was a man as misunderstood as we are and they nailed him to a fucking cross!"

"Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things."

"Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched."

"To believe with certainty we must begin by doubting."