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

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

"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."

"It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told."

"He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray."

"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it."

"In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day."

"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better."

"Almost anything you do is insignificant, But it is very important that you do it."

"I prefer complexity to certainty, cheerful mysteries to sullen facts."

"I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it."