The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

The Celts were fearless warriors because they wish to inculcate this as one of their leading tenets, that souls do not become extinct, but pass after death from one body to another.

Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.

No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance.

Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed-men, and such as sleep o'nights; Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much; such men are dangerous.

Men willingly believe what they wish.