Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?

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.

In America an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.

It gives me the same pleasure when someone else proves a good theorem as when I do it myself.

Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.

Don't give up on the people you love. Your patient love and faithfulness may be exactly what they need to make a complete turnaround.

I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.

I didnt know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.

Cowards' weapons neither cut nor pierce.

Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.

Military pay has been allowed to lag behind to the point where career enlisted men with families to feed have been forced to resort to food stamps.

I'm suspicious of epiphanies, because they so rarely last.