It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.

By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.

Nobody sees a flower really,it is so small. We haven't time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.

A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.

Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.

Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.