Busy opinion is an idle fool.

There is a place, List, daughter! in a black and hollow vault, Where day is never seen; there shines no sun, But flaming horror of consuming fires; A lightless…

Why, I hold fate Clasped in my fist, and could command the course Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou been One thought more steady than an ebbing sea.

Delay in vengeance gives a heavier blow.

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I alwa…

Opinion is not worth a rush.

When anger rushes, unrestrain'd to action, Like a hot steed, it stumbles in its way: The man of thought strikes deepest, and strikes safest.