As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. -Mother Teresa.

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that colour. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3.

Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.

Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

When you're really poor, everything you see is something you can't have.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

All is but a jest, all dust, all not worth two peason: For why in man's matters is neither rime nor reason.

The obstacles you face are... mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach.

His heart and hand both open and both free; For what he has he gives, what thinks he shows; Yet gives he not till judgment guide his bounty. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iv. Sc. 5.

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.

Forgive thyself little, and others much.

One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction.

The twig is so easily bended I have banished the rule and the rod: I have taught them the goodness of knowledge, They have taught me the goodness of God; My heart is the dungeon of darkness, When I shut them for breaking a rule; My frown is sufficient correction; My love is the law of the school.

The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.

Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.