If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous?

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.

The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever.

Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

When adversities flow, then love ebbs; but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.

The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.

Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.

He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.

You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.

Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in mood, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement-mixer long after one's own interest in the topic has waned.

In a country like America, there are places, many states here still where coming out means you lose your job, where coming out means division, where it means potentially abuse.

Strive each day to make your life purer, richer, and more luminous. You will subtly and imperceptibly lead all of creation heavenward.

Defeat Them in Detail: The Divide and Conquer Strategy. Look at the parts and determine how to control the individual parts, create dissension and leverage it.

Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country.

I'm scared of screwing up my kids.

We till shadowed days are done, We must weep and sing Duty's conscious wrong, The Devil in the clock

Lend less than you owe.