'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.

Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

As I am never better than when I am mad; then methinks I am a brave fellow; then I do wonders: but reason abuseth me, and there's the torment, there's the hell.

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.