"No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown."

"Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood."

"Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers."

"All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad."

"Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children."

"Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it."

"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

"INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act."

"Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning."

"Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life be without it?"

"Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others."

"If men want to oppose war, it is *statism* that they must oppose."