A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.

But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.

The lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others. His friends find in her a likeness to hermother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.

For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.

When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed, then is the State safe, but when these things are heard without regard, as above or below us, then is the Commonwealth sick or dead.

They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear.