As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.

My true love hath my heart, and I have his

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it

Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.

That really was NOT fun, though. Well, the hitting-her-with-a-stick part, that was fun. But crashing into a concrete bear? NOT fun.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!

Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

Does Heaven ever speak? The four seasons come and go, and all creatures thrive and grow. Does Heaven ever speak!

We know we only have about half of our population that's voting.

A lot of movies will deliver on the promotion but when you go see them, everything you laughed at was in the trailer.

I don’t believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence.

I know what it's like to have a bunch of material that's working that you don't care about. You want to die.