Many are those who can argue; few are those who can converse

Easy come, easy go... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.

Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.

There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.

Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?