"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together."

"The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly."

"The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite."

"The old folk, time's doting chronicles."

"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it isTo have a thankless child!"

"Thou hast nor youth nor age, but, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep, dreaming on both."

"I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."

"To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson."

"Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence."

"Knowledge, like religion, must be 'experienced' in order to be known."

"A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top."

"In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself."