"Imitation is the sincerest of flattery."

"Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give."

"True friendship is like sound health, the value is seldom appreciated until it is lost."

"If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city."

"If universal charity prevailed, Earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable."

"Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms."

"The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before."

"After you've been in a place for a while, everything starts to look... I won't say better, there's no need to go to extremes...but your everyday life does start to become...familiar."

"I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back."

"It's not my Goddamn planet! Understand, Monkey-Boy?"

"Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits."

"A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so."