"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls, for stony limits cannot hold love out”

“How every fool can play upon the word!”

“From this day forward until the end of the world...we in it shall be remembered...we band of brothers.”

“But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.”

“It's harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.”

“Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.”

“Give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt.”

“The treacherous are ever distrustful.”

“The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like a tree in the wind, he has no destination in view and makes use of anything life happens to bring his way.”