Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained And prayed me oft forbearance--did it with A pudency so rosy, the sweet view on't Might well have warmed old Saturn--that I thought her As chaste as unsunned snow.

The solemn fog; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge.

Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.

Hail, fellow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul, for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

People who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others have idled, have perservered while others gave up in despair, and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success often erroneously attributed to good luck.

If one has no better method of enticement to offer, the cordial agreement seems to us to be the best compromise.

A taste for simplicity cannot last for long. -Eugene Delacroix.

The three black graces, Law, Physic, and Divinity.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

Drive carefully! Remember, it's not only a car that can be recalled by it's maker.

In those whom I like, I can find no common denominator; in those whom I love I can: they all make me laugh. -W. H. Auden.

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.

The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby.

You do not lead by hitting people over the head-- that's assault, not leadership.

O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, O mortal men! be wary how ye judge: For we, who see the Maker, know not yet The number of the chosen; and esteem Such scantiness of knowledge our delight: For all good is, in that primal good, Concentrate; and God's will and ours are one.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.