What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost.

I pray your Highness mark this curious herb: Touch it but lightly, stroke it softly, Sir, And it gives forth an odor sweet and rare; But crush it harshly and you'll make a scent Most disagreeable.

In men this blunder still you find, All think their little set mankind.

Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.

Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Out of our reach the gods have laid Of time to come th' event, And laugh to see the fools afraid Of what the knaves invent.

Take gifts with a sigh: most men give to be paid.

Sentimentality-- That's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Villain and he be many miles asunder.

Chocolate covered raisins, cherries, orange slices & strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want.

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

There's lots of people--this town wouldn't hold them; Who don't know much excepting what's told them.

'Tis not amiss, ere ye're giv'n o'er, To try one desp'rate med'cine more; For where your case can be no worse, The desp'rat'st is the wisest course.