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

---

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

---

A good lenten answer! I can tell thee where that saying was born, of ‘I fear no colours.

---

When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I won. When I needed people the most, they left me. When I learnt to dry my tears, I found a shoulder to cry on. And when I mastered the art of hating, somebody started loving me.

---

For naught so vile on the Earth doth live, but to the Earth some special good doth give.

---

Here will be an old abusing of God’s patience and the king’s English.

---

Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.

---

There's a time for all things.

---

Nothing comes from doing nothing.

---

For he today who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.

---