"See where she comes apparelled like the..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.”

“My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.”

“Speak to me as to thy thinkings,As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughtsThe worst of words.”

“In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful, because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it is thereforeuseful, because it is symmetrical and fair. Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.”

“Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.”

“There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.”

“Mother cow expects from us nothing but grass and grain.”

“Science, Nature,-O, I've yearned to open some page.”

“I have trouble with some books because I'm so much in agreement with them I'd rather just sit in the grass myself.”