Now, while the honour thou hast got Is spick and span new.

No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere.

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

All plumed like estridges that with the wind Baited like eagles having lately bathed; Glittering in golden coats, like images; As full of spirit as the month of May, And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 1.

being a grandfather doesn't bother me, but sleeping with a grandma certainly does.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

You're as likely to get through to him if you burble mindlessly at him whilst tossing geraniums standing on a garden gnome.

I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.

And nobler is a limited command, Given by the love of all your native land, Than a successive title, long and dark, Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's Ark.

He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.

Art is work, to sell it is art.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.

Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.

To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?.

A man of maxims only, is like a cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.

The fault rests with the gods, who have made her so stupid.

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.