Love makes of the wisest man a fool, and of the most foolish woman, a sage.

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

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Jealousy is said to be the offspring of Love. Yet, unless the parent makes haste to strangle the child, the child will not rest till it has poisoned the parent.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny, and youth is vain; And to be wrothe with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.

We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.

At least when you are dead you will know what silence truly sounds like.

To do a perfectly unselfish act for selfish motives.

Oh, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful In the contempt and anger of his lip! -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 1.

Go pretty rose, go to my fair, Go tell her all I fain would dare, Tell her of hope; tell her of spring, Tell her of all I fain would sing, Oh! were I like thee, so fair a thing.

A dinner lubricates business.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Suspicion follows close on mistrust.

Think that day lost whose descending sun Views from thy hand no noble action done.

We are the doubles of those whose way Was festal with fruits and flowers; Body and brain we were sound as they, But the prizes were not ours.

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.

We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness than we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware.

There is no more beautiful life than that of a student.