Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.

Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.

Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.

Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.

In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.

Time is the Mind of Space.

Embrace the wonder

Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.

Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.

Life is a journey. We hear it often. Do we care about the intermediate destinations? No, we are sleeping and dreaming. If this is true, how can we pursue life as our journey?

I feel very, very thankful to have the family that I do.

Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.

Crowds of men are like crowds of sheep. Not the best, but the first leader is usually followed.

All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.

The root cause of terrorism is terrorists.