Immortal Spenser, no frailty hath thy fame but the imputation of this idiot's friendship!

Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.

From winter, plague and pestilence, good lord, deliver us!

Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's eye.

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

The Sun shineth as well on the good as the bad: God from on high beholdeth all the workers of iniquity, as well as the upright of heart.

Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king

Shape your coat according to your cloth.

Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels.

New herrings, new!' we must cry, every time we make ourselves public, or else we shall be christened with a hundred new titles of idiotism.

Blest is that government where no art thrives.

SOMETIMES PEOPLES THAT YOU DONT CONSIDER AS FRIENDS AS YOUR FRIENDS ARE REALLY YOUR FRIEND.

Men are like fine wines - the older they get, the better they get.

I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.'

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.

It's a kind of liberation to break free in language, if you can break free, but it's also a confinement, because form confines you - whatever the form.

In the current febrile climate Isis needs Donald Trump and Donald Trump needs Isis.

Be as unique and original as possible.

Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.

A lot of people think that fame is the Band-Aid that cures their ills. I'm no kid, and I knew long before I got famous that wasn't the deal. I'm the court jester, not the queen.

Determination can change your mind. Determination can change your heart. Determination can change your life altogether.