The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground.

Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.

Beauty is only skin deep.

Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.

A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.

An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous

Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.

Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.

Things were first made, then words.

The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato - the only good belonging to him is underground.

I have every expectation that cancer will become known as the disease of human evolution trying and failing to adapt to a significantly changed environment.

Whatever it takes to find the real you, don't be daunted if the rest of the world looks on in shock.

Quit dwelling on other people's stories and make up some of your own.

American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.

The husk could be some useless bloke or losing myself and changing my DNA with bottomless grief.

I have one rule I live by: Only do what you can do. That neans you're never looking outside for what's popular; you're always looking inside for what's true.

Take heed of winde that comes in at a hole, and a reconciled Enemy.

The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.

I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.

I'm not just a politician, I'm a guy who has a real deep, substantive, commitment to education.