Let's dance and sing and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.

There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant; Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm To bring us good or to work with harm.

A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never.

The eftest way. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.

Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve.

The collapse of character begins with compromise.

Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far.

Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. -Joan Baez.

Besides 'tis known he could speak Greek As naturally as pigs squeak; That Latin was no more difficile That to a blackbird 'tis to whistle.

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on't, in the world, than they are. And for my own part, I would a hundred thousand of them were there for we are all one countrymen now, ye know, and we should find ten times more comfort of them there than we do here.

Assume a virtue if you have it not.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.