So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him! -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.

You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.

Eating the bitter bread of banishment. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 1.

Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

It is not that I disagree with you, it is just that I'm not in full accord.

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.

Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. -Chief Seattle.

No tree has branches so foolish as to fight among themselves. Ojibway Tribe.

Boils and plagues Plaster you o'er, that you may be abhorr'd Further than seen

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.

Anger opens the mouth and shuts the mind.

...consequence you'll see will be stranger than a gang of drunken mimes...

There came to the beach a poor Exile of Erin, The dew on his thin robe was heavy and chill; For his country he sigh'd, when at twilight repairing. To wander along by the wind-beaten hill. But the day star attracted his eyes' sad devotion, For it rose o'er his own native isle of the ocean, Where once in the fire of his youthful emotion He sang the bold anthem of Erin-go-bragh.