"Ruin has taught me to ruminate,That Time..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense?”

“Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure.”

“I pray thee cease thy counsel,Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve.”

“I Sing what was lost and dread what was won, / I walk in a battle fought over again.”

“To venture causes anxiety. Not to venture is to lose oneself.”

“If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.”

“I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we'll make peace with each other . . . No rush.”

“Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme.”

“But the whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared with the length of our life, that these changes are not observed, and before their course can be recorded from beginning to end whole nations perish and are destroyed.”