“If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.”

“Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.”

“The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.”

“Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.”

“I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person. Moral qualities rule the world, but at shorter distances, the senses are despotic.”

“Those who serve supreme causes must not consider what they can get but what they can give.”

“You will never find a truly happy self-centered person. They simply don't exist.”

“When you SEEK HAPPINESS for yourself, it will always elude you. When you seek happiness for OTHERS, you will find it yourself.”

“Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.”

“Is he on his horse? O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!”

“See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek!”

“I that please some, try all, both joy and terrorOf good and bad, that makes and unfolds error.”

“Do all men kill the things they do not love?”

“If the masses can love without knowing why, they also hate without much foundation.”

“. . . nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death To throw away the dearest thing he owed, As 'twere a careless trifle.”

“I had rather eleven died nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.”

“A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!”

“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.”

“She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared”

“Be to yourself as you would to your friend.”

“Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.”

“"Fair, kind, and true" is all my argument,"Fair, kind, and true" varying to other words;And in this change is my invention spent,Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.”

“I had rather eleven died nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.”