Mellifluous Shakespeare, whose enchanting Quill Commandeth Mirth or Passion, was but Will.

Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.

I wasn't affected by inflation -- I had nothing to inflate.

In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught is liable to choke one, here one never receives a favour until he loses another instead, here every additional day in one's life is a day reduced from the total span of his existence, when death is the natural outcome of life, how can we expect immortality?

Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.

A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.

In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know?

The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body.

Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.

Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function of science and art. There is no process by which to reach an ideal. There are no tests by which to verify it. It is therefore impossible to frame a proposition about an ideal which can be proved or disproved. It follows that the use of ideals is to be strictly limited to proper cases, and that the attempt to use ideals in social discussion does not deserve serious consideration.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning; Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Thou wilt never be spiritually minded and godly unless thou art silent concerning other men's matters and take full heed to thyself.

Come, our stomachs Will make what's homely savory.

Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be.

The so-called human race.

There 's a skirmish of wit between them. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.

Civilized man has always had a great inclination to read his conceptions and feelings into the mind of primitive man; but he has only a limited capacity for understanding the latter's undeveloped mental life and for interpreting, as it were, his nature.