"Her father lov'd me; oft invited me;Still..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“I must be cruel, only to be kind.”

“Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands,But more when envy breeds unkind division:There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.”

“Who is it can read a woman?”

“It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs - because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.”

“Have good examples and stories to drive home your content.”

“Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That he was first to repeat them? No. None of these things has any value. He confers on them their only originality that has any value, and that is his way of telling them.”

“My ability to persuade my wife to marry me was quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been impossible for any ordinary man to have got through what I had to go through in peace and war without the devoted aid of what we call, in England, one's better half.”

“To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all our lives be simplified merely, like an algebraic formula? Or not, rather, that I may make use of the ground I have cleared to live more worthily and profitably?”

“A day merely survived is no cause for celebration.”