It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure but to avoid pain.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

This above all, to thine own self be true.

I am one who loved not wisely but too well.

Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

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