He that is rich is wise.

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.

In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

Pride the first peer and president of hell.

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

He that is rich is wise.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

Invest in the human soul. Who knows it might be a diamond in the rough.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond and must be polished or the luster of it will never appear.

A rich man is an honest man—no thanks to him; for he would be a double knave, to cheat mankind when he had no need of it: he has no occasion to press upon his integrity, nor so much as to touch upon the borders of dishonesty.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond; and must be polished, or the lustre of it will never appear.

The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.

What people really want is fairness. They want people paying their fair share of taxes.

I usually start writing a novel that I then abandon. When I say abandon, I don't think any writer ever abandons anything that they regard as even a half-good sentence. So you recycle. I mean, I can hang on to a sentence for several years and then put it into a book that's completely different from the one it started in.

I'm a Republican, but I find Nancy Pelosi very attractive.

I never got into 'Star Wars.' Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all.

We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.

People ask me if I think Anne Boleyn was a feminist... but she wasn't striking out on behalf of women, and she wasn't particularly keen on them.

Memory…like an old musical box it will lie silent for long years; then a mere nothing, a jerk, a tremor, will start the spring, and from beneath its decent covering of dust it will talk to us of forgotten passion and desire.

I have never been a girlie girl and have always been a boys' girl with an equal amount of friends who were boys and girls.

Nobody loves a fat girl but oh how a fat girl can love.

My idea of a holiday was following my family up the hill with my pekinese, who would skip over the heather in front of me.

I'm just glad I got to work with the likes of Spielberg.

The most beautiful thing about Brazil that I always find that is so unlike any other place I've been in the world is the diversity of its people.

San Francisco. The one team that everyone in LA hates.

I don't hear a lot about elected officials that are men talking about whether they smile a lot. My dad was in elected office my entire life. I don't remember many smiles, and nobody commented about it. He was serious about his job, and so am I.

The title is one of the most important things. It is the first thing that people read.

Real cowboys wear Wranglers. End of story. Levi's may be chic and trendy, but if you work cattle for a living, you wear Wranglers.

I've been very focused on my career outside of tennis.

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

I know this: that in your own hearts and your own souls, you are as much responsible for the Vietnam War as I am for killing these people.

Those folks out in the space suits are going to be getting beat up.

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

Seeing the intensity and power she brings to the game, it's hard to imagine her being anything but single-minded in pursuing tennis. But Serena Williams has other passions, too. In fact, there doesn't seem to be enough time in the day, week or month for one of the world's most gifted athletes to chase her many interests.

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.