"How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees."

"But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute."

"Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end."

"Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent."

"Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ."

"Age cannot wither her, nor custom staleHer infinite variety."

"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."

"Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed."

"The mistakes are all there waiting to be made."

"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be."

"Socialism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen."