One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this. |
One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves |
Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within. |
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches. |
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches. |
Patience and shuffle the cards. |
Poetry, good sir, in my opinion, is like a tender virgin, very young, and extremely beautiful, whom divers others virgins - namely, all the other sciences - make it their business to enrich, polish and adorn; and to her it belongs to make use of them |
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. |
She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being |
Spare your breath to cool your porridge. |
Take away the cause, and the effect ceases; what the eye ne'er sees, the heart ne'er rues |
Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills. |
Tell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are. |
That which costs little is less valued. |
That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not. |