Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. - Wisdom in Small Doses.

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them -which- we are missing.

Stolen sweets are always sweeter: Stolen kisses much completer; Stolen looks are nice in chapels: Stolen, stolen be your apples.

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before you.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Intuition is a suspension o f logic due to impatience.

I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.

Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society.

Gin was mother's milk to her.

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.

Foul whisp'rings are abroad.

The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death...

We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only we set it apart to his service -- just as a gardener brings his master a basket of apricots, and presents them; his lord thanks him, and perhaps gives him something for his pains, and yet the apricots were as much his lord's before as now.

Never buy shoes early in the day when your feet are their smallest.

Examine what is said, not who speaks.

This is your devoted friend, sir, the manifold linguist and the armipotent soldier.