All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.

And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.

Life is an incurable disease.

For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.

A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.

As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.

Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

Can’t clean up after you anymore, baby brother, so don’t punk out. Make it count.

Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

I was trapped in admiration for what I had once admired, as a fly in amber remains the captive of some long-vanished pine.

It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.

The great need of the world has always been for leaders. With more leaders we could have more industry. More industry, more employment and comfort for all.

There is an advantage to be found in most everything that happens to you, even if it is not immediately apparent.

Before you went to work this morning in the city, did you spend some time with your family? Did you kiss your wife and tell her that she's pretty?