"I like this place, and willingly would waste my time in it."

"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries."

"Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough."

"I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night."

"They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad."

"But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy."

"Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious."

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."

"In false quarrels there is no true valor."

"A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers."

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

"There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule."