How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

How far your eyes may pierce, i cannot tell; striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess

He is the half part of a blessed man,<br /> Left to be finished by such as she;<br /> And she a fair divided excellence,<br /> Whose fulness of perfection...

There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

I am constant as the northern star, of whose true fix'd and resting quality there is no fellow in the firmament.

Lowliness is young ambition's ladder,<br /> Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;<br /> But when he once attains the upmost round,<br /> He then unto...

I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.

When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

The common herd.

Men at some time are the masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

Every day is special if you think so, every moment is memorable if you feel so, everyone is unique if you see and life is wonderful if you live so.

Wealth and power are fruits of life. Family and friends are roots of life. A tree can live without fruits, but not without roots.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.