"One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a..." - 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.”

“Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.”

“Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.”

“Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.”

“The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.”

“Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.”

“Your praises will become your wages.”

“The sculptor, the painter the musician the dancer, or any artist, if he can first obtain celebrate in Paris, acquires very easily the esteem and eulogy of other countries.”

“The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings; and lo! they are flown.”