"For we, which now behold these present..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“How many ages henceShall this our lofty scene be acted overIn states unborn and accents yet unknown!”

“Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear.”

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

“I like my jokes to be built on a foundation of ideas, or at least smart observations.”

“The wild gander leads his flock through the cool night, Ya-honk! he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation: The pert may suppose it meaningless, but I listen closer, I find its purpose and place up there toward the November sky.”

“Nature is always behind the age”

“I have seen landscapes . . . which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head over the next ridge.”

“One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever.”

“Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.”