"Sick in the world's regard, wretched and..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“Upon thy cheek I lay this zealous kiss, as seal to the indenture of my love.”

“What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.”

“Where I could not be honest,I never yet was valiant.”

“Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.”

“Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.”

“Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.”

“Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.”

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”

“To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction.”