This only grant me that my means may lie too low for envy for contempt too high.

And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.

Life is an incurable disease.

For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.

A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.

As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.

The content of a man is the life he possesses inside

In general, I feel if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

They are a couple in love, and anyone but a fool would see it is simply that, nothing more- and certainly nothing less.

True wisdom dwells in the ability to remain constantly aware of that in which we have no practical knowledge of

There are two kinds of stones as everyone knows one which rolls.

Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.

The essence of true friendship, in my view, is to make allowances for one another's little lapses.

Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment.

We became somewhat household names really quickly, within a matter of - what? - three, four months. So it's hard to get used to, and it's really sometimes hard to understand.

Anything that can happen to someone else, can happen also to you.