I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

For sorrow ends not, when it seemeth done.

Our nearness to the king in love is nearness to those who love not the king.

Northumberland, thou ladder wherewithal the mounting Bolingbroke ascends my throne.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

Failure is that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

Not that I have anything against music now, but I just hated being an anything. I don't know why.

If all the world's a stage and all the people players, who in bloody hell hired the director?

I know that people think I'm a party king; but, face it, if I finished the bottle every time I took a drink, I wouldn't be able to do the aerials I do onstage.

I drew pictures rapidly and with few lines, because I had to write most of the pieces, too, and couldn't monkey long with the drawings. The divine urge was no higher than that.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

My family was a good family, I had a great Canadian education and I came up in a great, little town like Ottawa.

We deserve punishment and get forgiveness; we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.