In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.

No Spring nor Summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be.

What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.

You are always a student and life is your teacher. Always be curious, enthusiastic, and open to change.

To me sometimes a mute sky is more expressive than the roaring sea

You'd better know what you want, because you'll probably get it.

He remembers when he was very small his mother once said she wished happiness and adventure for him. If this does not count as adventure, he is not sure what does.

People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not know is that the burden falls inevitably on them.

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

The hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for being unlikeable.

Patience is God's nature.

I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.