The world's a stage where God's omnipotence, His justice, knowledge, love, and providence Do act the parts.

For where's the State beneath the Firmament, That doth excell the Bees for Government?

Apoplexie and lethargie, As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.

In every hedge and ditch both day and night We fear our death, of every leafe affright.

And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.

I take the world to be but as a stage,Where net-maskt men do play their personage.

Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes),Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes;Who loving novels, full of affectation,Receive the manners of each other nation.

What is well done is done soon enough.

There is no Theam more plentifull to scan, Then is the glorious goodly frame of Man.

Bright-flaming, heat-full fire,The source of motion.

The will for deed I doe accept.

Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.

She was a warrior by day... playing her part. But she slept at night with wishes in her heart.

All great dreamers have great faith.

You are a great deal of trouble, Jace herondale. “So I’ve been told” jace said

News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

Oh heavens, how I long for a little ordinary human enthusiasm. Just enthusiasm - that's all. I want to hear a warm, thrilling voice cry out Hallelujah! Hallelujah! I'm alive!

We go lightheartedly on our way, never thinking that by a careless word or two we may have altered the whole course of human lives, for some person will take our advice and use it.

I think I am disciplined when I need to be, and relax when I can.

I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New York.