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

"So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence."

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

"The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside."

"Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after."

"There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder."

"From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it."

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

"'Where did you put it?' 'Put what?' 'You know?' 'Where do you think?' 'Oh.'"

"Good questions outrank easy answers."

"Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace."

"You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow."