I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.

Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?.