Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

It is not in our stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

The Eyes are the window to your soul

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

The only time you seem honest is when you’re insulting someone!”“The only honest things I can say to you are insults.

When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

If you would learn a thing, straightway declare yourself a professor of it!

As a rule, panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been destroyed by its betrayal into hopelessly unproductive works.

As a person, I do ascribe to a lot of magical thinking myself.

When April steps aside for May, Like diamonds all the rain-drops glisten; Fresh violets open every day: To some new bird each hour we listen.

The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.