A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde
What thought can think, another thought can mend.
Robert Southwell
Promise is the most given when the least is said.
George Chapman
I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.
George Chapman
Who to himself is law no law doth need,
Offends now law, and is a king indeed.
George Chapman
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
George Chapman
Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair
In that she never studied to be fairer
Than Nature made her.
George Chapman
My true-love hath my heart, and I have his,
By just exchange one for the other given:
I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss,
There never was a better bargain driven.
Sir Philip Sidney
They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
Sir Philip Sidney
I was promised on a time
To have reason for my rhyme;
From that time unto this season,
I received nor rhyme nor reason.
Edmund Spenser
Death slew not him, but he made death his ladder to the skies.
Edmund Spenser
The soft drops of rain pierce the hard marble; many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.
John Lyly
That to live by one man’s will became the cause of all men’s misery.
Richard Hooker
Some have too much, yet still do crave;
I little have, and seek no more:
They are but poor, though much they have,
An I am rich with little store:
They poor, I rich; they beg, I give;
They lack, I have; they pine, I live.
Edward Dyer
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,
As sages in all times assert;
The happy man’s without a shirt.
John Heywood
