"As true as steel, as plantage to..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short; He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding doth choke the feeder; Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.”

“Extremity is the trier of spirits.”

“I have a soul of lead So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.”

“Long and long has the grass been growing,Long and long has the rain been falling,Long has the globe been rolling round.”

“Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.”

“Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?”

“A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.”

“How circumstantial reality is! Facts are like individual letters, with their spikes and loops and thorns, that make up words: eventually they hurt our eyes, and we long to take a bath, to rake the lawn, to look at the sea.”

“Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity, can possess truth, which works as a spiritual force within it.”