"O heaven! were man, But constant, he..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.”

“This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet”

“To be in love- where scorn is bought with groans,Coy looks with heart-sore sighs, one fading moment's mirthWith twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights;If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain;If lost, why then a grievous labour won;However, but a folly bought with wit,Or else a wit by folly vanquished.”

“It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.”

“The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.”

“Not only we can, but some have reached perfection; so no matter what finer bodies come, they could only be on the relative plane and could do no more than we, for to attain freedom is all that can be done.”

“The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.”

“Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal.”

“There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.”