Quotes to inspire and reflect

Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers." "Charles W.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

Hitch your wagon to a star. "Ralph Waldo Emerson, ""American Civilization"", The Atlantic Monthly, 1862" #0022 Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

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

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend. More than cool reason ever comprehends.

Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage.

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

Time travels at different speeds for different people. I can tell you who time strolls for, who it trots for, who it gallops for, and who it stops cold for.

Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell, To die upon the hand I love so well.

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. I was but little happy if I could say how much.

I wish you all the joy that you can wish.

I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

They do not love, they do not show their love.

Speak low if you speak love

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes’ palaces.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

The better part of valor is discretion

Make not your thoughts your prisons.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

Teach me how I should forget to think.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.

If to do were as easy to know what were good to do.

Time is very slow for those who wait. Very fast for those who are scared. Very long for those who celebrate. But for those who love, time is eternal.

Knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

I always feel happy, you know why? Because I don’t expect anything from anyone, expectations always hurt. Life is short, so love your life, be happy and keep smiling.

Always the wrong person gives you the right lesson in life.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.

Love me or hate me, both are in my favor, if you love me, I’ll always be in your heart, if you hate me, I’ll always be in your mind.

Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.” ― William Shakespeare

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume” -William Shakespear e

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.” - William Shakespear e

That deep torture may be called a hell, When more is felt than one hath power to tell.