“He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.”

“Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.”

“Queen and huntress, chaste and fair,Now the sun is laid to sleep,Seated in thy silver chair,State in wonted manner keep:Hesperus entreats thy light,Goddess excellently bright.Earth, let not thy env...”

“Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.”

“For a man to write well, there are required three necessariesto read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.”

“There was never a great genius without a touch of madness.”

“But who can remember pain, once its over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”

“I know what you are learning to endure. There is nothing to be done. Make sure nothing is wasted. Take notes. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In lif...”

“My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning does not stop. The machines do not rest, the systems rarely ...”