Deeds are males, words females are.

Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.

Much like a subtle spider which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide; If aught do touch the utmost thread of it, She feels it instantly on every side.

We may conceive an hope that the next generation will in tongue and heart and every way else become English; so as there will be no difference or distinction but the Irish sea betwixt us.

This is the slowest, yet the daintiest sense; For ev'n the ears of such as have no skill, Perceive a discord, and conceive offence; And knowing not what's good, yet find the ill.

What more than madness reigns, when one short sitting many hundreds drains.

If aught can teach us aught, Affliction's looks, Making us pry into ourselves so, near, Teach us to know ourselves, beyond all books, Or all the learned schools that ever were.

For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?

Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.

Thou art true and honest as a dog.

I know my soul hath power to know all things, Yet is she blind and ignorant in all: I know I'm one of Nature's little kings, Yet to the least and vilest things am thrall.

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

circumstances and destiny together play role to our foundation

No one is too poor to give a smile - a gift, often, of greater consequence than any sum of money.

Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.

You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.

There is nothing more deceptive, more grandeur, than the delusion of a single man.

He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.

Just because you go to church doesn't mean you're a Christian. I can go sit in the garage all day and it doesn't make me a car

[Barack Obama] is a man who is causing us and will cause us a great deal of harm constitutionally and personally.

Write. Don't think. Relax.