"Self-defence is Nature's eldest law."

"A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow."

"He who would search for pearls must dive below."

"It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence."

"Words are but pictures of our thoughts."

"Dancing is the poetry of the foot."

"War is the trade of Kings."

"Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue."

"All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey."

"Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me."

"Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas."

"When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit."

"For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen."

"Honor is but an empty bubble."

"Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where."

"You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water."

"Repentance is but want of power to sin."

"Love is love's reward."

"Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong."

"We first make our habits, and then our habits make us."

"The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves."

"Beware the fury of a patient man."

"Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son."

"Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul."

"The first is the law, the last prerogative."

"And plenty makes us poor."

"Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be."

"Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today."

"God never made His work for man to mend."

"Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are."

"Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten."

"But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much."

"Successful crimes alone are justified."

"Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide."

"Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue."

"But love's a malady without a cure."

"What passions cannot music raise or quell?"

"Never was patriot yet, but was a fool."

"If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn."

"They that possess the prince possess the laws."

"Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun."

"Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!"

"Love is not in our choice but in our fate."

"And love's the noblest frailty of the mind."

"Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds."

"Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today."

"There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know."

"He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear."

"Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres."

"Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught."