Parting is such sweet sorrow.
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
He that loves to be flattered is worthy o’ the flatterer.
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Well, if Fortune be a woman, she’s a good wench for this gear.
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.
But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.
Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.