But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.

Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.

But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.

If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love.

But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.

The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.

[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.

So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.

It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.

Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.

A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.

A mind possessed by unmade books, unwritten lines on empty hooks.

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech.

I don't want to boss anyone and I don't want to be bossed.

Try everything that can be done. Be deliberate. Be spontaneous. Be thoughtful and painstaking. Be abandoned and impulsive. Learn your own possibilities.

You come out of a woman and you spend the rest of your life trying to get back inside.

The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger.

If you can but give to the fainting soul at your door a cup of water from the wells of truth, it shall flash back on you the radiance of God. As you save, so shall you be saved.

Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves!

If you will it, it is no dream