Brevity is the soul of wit.
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
But men are men; the best sometimes forget.
Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.
Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear;_When little fears grow great, great love grows there.
Absence from those we love is self from self – a deadly banishment.
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
For my part, it was Greek to me.