Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

He that has more knowledge than judgement, is made for another man's use more than his own.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

As Christians we believe that man is not a thing; he is not a commodity to be bought and sold, and he is not to be used in an impersonal way. Man, a child of God, is a person with a personal destiny and with eternal value. This Christian belief underlies the democratic principle that the State, first of all, exists for the sake of its citizens; the individual is important... As Christians we also believe that we are made for one another because we are made for God. "Solidarity" is a good word for our essential condition. Beneath all our differences is a unity... This Christian belief underlies a second basic democratic principle, which is, in governing themselves, people of a community -- in a town, a city, a state, a nation -- can, despite inevitable conflicts, press effectively toward the goal of justice and liberty for all.

This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars; as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star.

Hotter than a nun's bug.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another is essential to your own.

The well-adjusted make poor prophets.

Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial.

He dies, and makes no sign. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 3.

Another lean unwashed artificer. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th' unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?

Fell luxury! more perilous to youth Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains.

The moon pull'd off her veil of light, That hides her face by day from sight That's both her lustre and her shade), And in the lantern of the night, With shining horns hung out her light.

And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race.

The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.