False world, thou ly'st: thou canst not lend The least delight: Thy favours cannot gain a friend, They are so slight.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

Reason can discover things only near,--sees nothing that's above her.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful.

Women have no appreciation of good looks-at least, good women have not.

It was juvenile, he knew, this need to assign blame, but everyone had a right to childish emotions from time to time, didn't they?

A floating leaf has more to boast about than a sinking ship.

While you are still beautiful and life still woos, it is such a fine gesture of disdainful pride to jilt it.

Truth is it's own witness.

Patriotism ruins history.

Self-seeking, self-glory, that is not me. No. Many people say I embarrass them with my humility.

Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.

If you're in a theater, people are texting, all around you. You have the little glowing screens everywhere. Think of how annoying that can be.

The few that pray at all pray oft amiss.