Ha! for a divine and lordly manor, there is nothing like solid ground.

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

A habit does not a monk make.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror

You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

Most people have this tendency to make judgments on others based on preconceptions, especially when they are dealing with them for the first time.

chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.

Don't sit on the fence

To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.

The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.

There is no such thing as "the user". Users... come in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and they have widely varying information needs.

Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.

If you act like you've only got fifteen minutes, it'll take all day. Act like you've got all day and it'll take fifteen minutes.

Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.

Multiculturalists argue that different cultural values are morally equivalent. That's nonsense.