A mockery king of snow. -King Richard II. Act iv. Sc. 1.

Be united--united--united.

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down, the monarch of a shed; Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze; While his lov'd partner, boastful of her hoard, Displays her cleanly platter on the board.

Hold, there is the very remuneration I had of thy master, thou halfpenny purse of wit, thou pigeon-egg of discretion.

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.

I'm a baaaadd man!!

Foreign slaves, as soon as they come within the limits of Gaul, that moment they are free.

Watch what you choose to do. For instance, someone might want you to smoke. Never forget that I told you -- don't do it. Say no. That can of beer that somebody wants you to try, don't do it. Don't you ever do it. That drug that someone might want you to use, don't touch it. Stay away from it. It can destroy you.

Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.

Some book there is that she desires to see. Which is it, girl, of these? Open them, boy. But thou art deeper read and better skilled: Come and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow, till the heavens Reveal the damned contriver of this deed.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem .

Let me take you a button-hole lower. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.

Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253 Holy Orders is a vocation from God; it is not a profession which we enter expecting an advance, or some sort of recognition as a right after so many years of work. But it is rather the giving up of self into the hands of God, without stint and without reserve, and letting Him set the work. It is the recognition of the fact that God has many kinds of work to be done, and that the best paid are not always the most honourable. To enter or exercise the ministry with a view to preferment is like marrying for money and not for love.

When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.