No doubt they rose up early to observe The rite of May; and, hearing our intent, Came here in grace of our solemnity.

A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary. Kim, Age 11 -Seneca.

Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two inches long, is just as magnificent, just as symbolic of divine mysteries and melodies, as when embodied in the span of some cathedral roof.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. .

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.

Be still, sad heart, and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.

Only last night he felt deadly sick, and, after a great deal of pain, two black crows flew out of his mouth and took wing from the room.

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny.

Friends are like puzzle pieces. If one goes away, that special piece can never be replaced and that puzzle will never be whole again.

One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.

no pain, no gain.

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.

God doesn't discriminate ... only religions do.

And the voice of men shall call, "He is fallen like us all, Though the weapon of the Lord was in his hand:" And thine epitaph shall be-- "He was wretched ev'n as we;" And thy tomb may be unhonoured in the land.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

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