REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

Little do men perceive what solitude is and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

The only really interesting thing iswhat happens between two people in a room.