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Beshrew me but I love her heartily;
For she is wise, if I can judge of her,
And fair she is, if that mine eyes be true,
And true she is, as she hath proved herself,
And therefore, like herself, wise, fair, and true,
Shall she be placed in my constant soul.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
I am pressed down with conceit;
Conceit, my comfort and my injury.
Am I in earth, in heaven, or in hell?
Sleeping or waking? Mad or well-advised?
Known unto these, and to myself disguised!
I will not move until I have the highest command… Your virtuous projects, so called, do not cheer me. I know that which shall come will cheer me. If I cannot work, at least I need not lie. All that is clearly due today is not to lie.
The characteristic of heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts… But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each ones part until the manager walks them off the stage?
O, what authority and show of truth
Can cunning sin cover itself withal!
O, what men dare do! What men may do!
What men daily do, not knowing what they do!
How great is the power of truth! Of its own power it can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity of cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.
The more we know, the greater our thirst for knowledge. The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals at the first pattering of showers, and rejoices in the raindrops with a quicker sympathy than the parched shrub in the sandy desert.
Every step so downward, is a step upward. The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
A man contains all that is needful to his government within himself. He is made a law unto himself. All real good or evil that can befall him must be from himself… The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint man with himself. He is not to live to the future as described to him, but to live in the real future by living to the real present. The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to Godliness.
When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.
One doth not know how much an ill word may empoison liking.
Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending.
The precept, “Know yourself” was not solely intended to abolish the pride of men, but also that we might understand our own value.
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy:
I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
