"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."

"When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast."

"Men at some time are the masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings."

"Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear."

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once."

"O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day!"

"And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed."

"It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances."

"Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain."

"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."

"I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake his neighbours up."

"RECTOR, n. In the Church of England, the Third Person of the parochial Trinity, the Cruate and the Vicar being the other two."