The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust.

Good-morrow to thy sable beak, And glossy plumage, dark and sleek, Thy crimson moon and azure eye

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

If my heart were not light, I would die.

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!

The bliss even of a moment still is bliss.

My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate.

But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.

A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!

So now that you know my truth, let's talk about yours.

Just everything else, Mum. I just have everything else from you.

We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people.

It is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself.

It is better to have loved and lost, but only if you have a good attorney.

I should pay attention to what I know and not talk more just because I won a Nobel Prize.

We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.

The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.

If there were only one person in the world, is there any way he could be insane?

Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites.