O, break, my heart! poor bankrout, break at once! To prison, eyes; ne'er look on liberty! Vile earth, to earth resign; end motion here, And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier!

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

The more he cast away the more he had.

Your attitude is the librarian of your past, the speaker of your present, and the prophet of your future!

Wisdom has two parts: 1) Having a lot to say. 2) Not saying it.

The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

I am slow of study. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Kill not the goose that lays the golden egg.

May the hinges of friendship never rust, or the wings of luve lose a feather.

Her gentle limbs did she undress, And lay down in her loveliness.

Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?

Let lessons of stern yesterdays . . . be your food, your drink, your rest.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

The oyster-women lock'd their fish up, And trudged away to cry, No Bishop.

Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

In sight of peace--from the Narrow Seas O'er half the world to run-- With a cheated crew, to league anew With the Goth and the shameless Hun.

Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something to what he has heard.