"Nor aught so good but strained from..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks”

“Every thing that grows / Holds in perfection but a little moment.”

“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead.”

“They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin; The thing the which is flattered, but a spark To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing.”

“In the bureaucracy, the identity of state interest and particular private aim is established in such a way that the state interest becomes a particular private aim over against other private aims.”

“History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head of the government couldn't be wise.”

“We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength.”

“Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.”

“To the good I would be good; to the not-good I would also be good, in order to make them good.”