A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 1.

Don't judge a man by his opinions, but by what his opinions have made him.

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people; for it is they who form a communication between the learned and the unlearned, and, as it were, throw a bridge between those two great divisions of the public.

Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit.

Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.

Love builds bridges where there are none.

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.

Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.

Don't limit your challenges - challenge your limits.

It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

Law is king of all.

I'll pu' the budding rose, when Phoebus peeps in view, For its like a baumy kiss o'er her sweet bonnie mou'!

Those graceful groves that shade the plain, Where Tiber rolls majestic to the main, And flattens, as he runs, the fair campagne.

Give up control even if it means the employees have to make some mistakes.

How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our pocket of excellence is that 75% of students have learned to critique tactfully?.

The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.