Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth--the cowards!

A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign power, Like other baubles in the Tower: Is generous, valiant, just, and wise, And so continues till he dies.

A-four and a-three and a-two and a-one...

This world's a bubble.

A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.

Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, It comes and sits softly on your shoulder.

All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Mine honor's such a ring; My chastity's the jewel of our house, Bequeathed down from many ancestors, Which were the greatest obloquy i' th' world In me to lose.

Wagner's music has some wonderful moments but awful half hours.

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

Kabira wept when he beheld the millstone roll, Of that which passes 'twixt the stones, nought goes forth whole. - Edward B. Eastwick,

The book which you are reading aloud is mine, Fidentinus; but, while you read it so badly, it begins to be yours.

One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories.

Though they rushed back and forth across the country on the slightest pretext, gathering kicks along the way, the real journey was inward.

Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.

it wasn't the caughing that carried him off, it was the coffin they carried him off in.

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.