One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.

Every man has within himself the entire human condition

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.

He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. If I were pressed to say why I loved him, I feel that my only reply could be: Because it was he, because it was I.