Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.

Every man...should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is pleasing to one is to make a pillow of the mind.

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Between good sense and good taste there is the difference between cause and effect.

'Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.

The only substitute for good manners is fast reflexes.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools, and is not polluted.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it, is as one who plows but does not sow.

Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes.

For most men Will back their own opinion is by a wager.

Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

A woman should be an illusion.

They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.