Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.

In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater; For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale.

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.

If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts.

Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.

If we truly cared about our children and future generations, instead of demagoging about them, we'd worry more about saving liberty than saving Social Security.

Comes at the last, and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall—and farewell king! -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.

To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life.

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

And have they fixed the where, and when? And shall Trelawny die? Here's thirty thousand Cornish men Will know the reason why!

Fires the proud tops of the eastern pines. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.

The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

Well has the name of Pontifex been given Unto the Church's head, as the chief builder And architect of the invisible bridge That leads from earth to heaven.