“The second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.”

“In fact, kings are surrounded with persons who are wonderfully attentive in taking care that the king be not alone and in a state to think of himself, knowing well that he will be miserable, king though he be, if he meditate on self.”

"Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education."

“Ne te quaesiveris extra.”

“If you can’t write clearly, it is my opinion that you don’t think very clearly.”

“True bravery is the subjugation of our passions by reason."

“Would you rather be the world’s worst lover and known as the best, or the world’s best lover and known as the worst?”

“Men lie, women lie, children lie, and we lie to ourselves, but energy, my friend, energy never lies.”

"I cannot, in good faith, keep this Bible on my nightstand and judge another man at the same time."

“…a science which, like all moral sciences, has not even been wrapped in swaddling-clothes yet.”

“The hardest thing is to forgive and God does.”

“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.”

“There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.”

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."

“Shifts in fortune are what test the reliability of friends.”

“There is no consequence-free drug.”

“In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves.”

“Make hay when the sun shines, and when it rains, sharpen your tools.”

“It’s a big club…and you ain’t in it! You and I, we are not in the club.”

“To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.“