But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.

Therefore the love which us doth bind, But fate so enviously debars, Is the conjunction of the mind, And opposition of the stars.

Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.

Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

The world in all doth but two nations bear- The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.

Art indeed is long, but life is short.

The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace.

And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept their time.

I have a garden of my own, But so with roses overgrown, And lilies, that you would it guess To be a little wilderness.

Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run

You're either reading a book or you're not.

Prayer in private results in boldness in public.

I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution.

People who get to the top of any organisation are generally dysfunctional human beings who are overachieving, overcompensating or overbearing.

Colonialism has a bad reputation in the modern context, but Colonial Africa was a far better place for both black and white before the colonists gave up.

His every syllable flirted. Honestly, he kind of turned me on. I didn't even know that guys could turn me on-not, like, in real life

Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up or persisting.

Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously of their designs.

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.