"There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep."

"Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it."

"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."

"Sing, Muse, of the anger of Achilles, son of Peleus..."

"It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go."

"The single best augury is to fight for one's country."

"RESPIRATOR, n. An apparatus fitted over the nose and mouth of an inhabitant of London, whereby to filter the visible universe in its passage to the lungs."

"The very essence of love is uncertainty."

"Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men."

"Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh."

"Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time."

"Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance."