How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

According as the man is, so must you humour him.

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

Is a faith without action a sincere faith?

Too much virtue can be criminal.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.

Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.

On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.

I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.

Without money honor is merely a disease.

It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!

I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.

My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.

I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.

In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before.

How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.

If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.

Justice in the extreme is often unjust.

Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.

It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.

Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.

Extreme justice is often injustice.

To repair the irreparable ravages of time.

Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.

Wrinkles on the brow are the imprints of exploits.

I normally work like a vampire. Around 8 to 9 P.M., what I call 'the spirits' actually show up, and then I just go in the booth and scream on top of a track. I only sing on the mic. I don't sit down and write anything.

Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.

We've always had to worry about the electrical grid and nuclear facilities, and they remain a concern; but cyber-terrorism, you know, which is a word that you hear more and more, I think is a reality.

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don't need.

I never say no to any event that is associated with education.

Women have a better understanding of social issues, and better representation gives them an opportunity to address these issues.

You are what you're portrayed as.

Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word when duly practiced.

Kittens will make your sad go away.

I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry.

I'm not going to disrespect you, don't disrespect me.

I think the first time I ever wore a tuxedo was when I played at the Talk Of The Town in 1967, because it was a nightclub and that was the thing to do.