"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for."

"It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave."

"I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead."

"Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after."

"Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies."

"There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder."

"We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out."

"I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best."

"There are only two types of aircraft a€“ fighters and targets."

"Sex is one's consolation when love is not enough"

"ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists."

"Are you to pay for all you have with all you are?"