Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.

Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day

Beauty is only skin deep.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground.

Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.

A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.

An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous

Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.

Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.

Things were first made, then words.

The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato - the only good belonging to him is underground.

Your dreams are the golden gate to a life of inspiration. The more you allow yourself to dream of your ideal future, the stronger your inspiration.

Not all of us have to possess earth-shaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.

I don't think he'd [Andy Warhol] be that amazed because he was so driven to be the Picasso of the second half of the 20th century.

Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.

Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.

Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events

All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step

You get what you think about, whether you want it or not. Commit to thinking about what you want, rather than how impossible or difficult that dream may seem.

The common breeds the common, A lout begets a lout, So when I take on half a score I knock their heads about.