Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

This Booke When Brasse and Marble fade, shall make thee looke Fresh to all Ages.

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?

A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to... But be respected, that is essential.

The only cure for grief is action.

Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.

Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if heaven were a hospital founded on purpose to receive all sick and maimed persons that, when they can live no longer to the lusts of the flesh and the sinful pleasures of this world, can but put up a cold and formal petition to be admitted there. No, no, as sure as God is true, they shall never see the Kingdom of God who, instead of seeking it in the first place, make it their last refuge and retreat.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Great, good, and just, could I but rate My grief with thy too rigid fate, I'd weep the world in such a strain As it should deluge once again; But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies More from Briareus' hands than Argus' eyes, I'll sing thy obsequies with trumpet sounds And write thy epitaph in blood and wounds.

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.

Who lined himself with hope, Eating the air on promise of supply. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

Two voices are there; one is of the sea, One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.