Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.

All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.

Gold is a deep-persuading orator.

As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made.

Love is a fiend, a fire, a heaven, a hell Where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell

If it be sin to love a lovely lad Oh there sin I.

He that is thy friend indeed, - He will help thee in thy need: - If thou sorrow, he will weep; - If you wake, he cannot sleep; - Thus of every grief in heart - He with thee doth bear a part.

Nothing is more certain than uncertainties: / Fortune is full of fresh variety; / Constant in nothing but inconstancy.

Every one that flatters thee Is no friend in misery. Words are easy, like the wind, Faithful friends are hard to find.

Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

When you follow your desires, your fears fade.

Nothing felt better to him than the act of waiting for her. As long as he believed it wasn’t in vain, he was able to justify his presence.

the government tends to act like a corporation treating the public as its consumers rather than its citizens

The life of a devotee is a crusade of which the heart is the Holy Land.

The human emotional system can be broken down into roughly two elements: fear and love. Love is of the soul. Fear is of the personality.

When I come before these men I do not have to explain that we are all sinners. They have committed every sin there is. All I have to tell them is that I, too, am a sinner.

I've spent years saying no to things. It's important to be selective with both projects and partners.

Making mistakes isn't enough to become great. You must also admit the mistake, and then learn how to turn that mistake into an advantage.

You've got to look for a gap, where competitors in a market have grown lazy and lost contact with the readers or the viewers.