If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ.

Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.

There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.