Evil news fly faster still than good.

I'll trust myself, myself shall be my friend.

As I am never better than when I am mad; then methinks I am a brave fellow; then I do wonders: but reason abuseth me, and there's the torment, there's the hell.

Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes; To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes. For here though death doth end their misery, I'll there begin their endless tragedy.

Fear shall force what friendship cannot win.

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; Oh life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.

Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own.

Where words prevail not, violence prevails.

My soule, poore soule thou talkes of things/ Thou knowest not what, my soule hath sliver wings, / That mounts me up unto the highest heavens.

Comedies are fit for common wits: But to present a kingly troop withal, Give me a stately-written tra

Good books do not waste our time as most people do... collect a great quantity of books, build alibrary worthy of your noble soul, andspend without stint all the money necessary for it.

The greater the pain, the greater the fun.

Anything that ends is a dream. This whole universe is a dream.

If you have a trust in and an expectation of your own solitude, everything that you need to know will be revealed to you.

A man's free will cannot cure him even of the toothache, or a sore finger; and yet he madly thinks it is in its power to cure his soul.

The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.

It signified nothing that the raw, male magnetism that emanated from him probably made compasses malfunction in his presence.

It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions.

If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?

I've got enough guilt to start my own religion.