Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.

The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun.

That age is best which is the first When youth and blood are warmer.

Then be not coy, but use your time; And while ye may, go marry: For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.

But ne'er the rose without the thorn.

Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en Death, to die for thee.

What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.

Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.

He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.

Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg, Which is as white and hairless as an egg.

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.

It is difficult to trust someone not raised to doctrine.

When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

At last God caught his eye.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

I'm much nicer in person than on Twitter.

Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

To me, failure is not fatal unless you quit; getting knocked down is not embarrassing unless you allow it to keep you down.

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

God, I felt like hell tonight, tears of rage I cannot fight.

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.