We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.

We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.

Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts.

Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered by a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marle?

Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.