"The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness."

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others."

"The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends."

"Let the punishment match the offense."

"He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason."

"Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it."

"One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them."

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors."

"It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish."

"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action."

"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion."

"Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity."