Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

Mr. Doctor, that loose gown becomes you so well I wonder your notions should be so narrow.

Young heads take example of the ancient

When we hang on to resentments, we poison ourselves. As compulsive overeaters, we cannot afford resentment, since it exacerbates our disease.

I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!

It has been always held for a special principle in friendship that prosperity provideth but adversity proveth friends.