“That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.”

Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.

I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.

It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.

Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.

If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.

A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.

[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.

I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.

For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.

The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.

The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.

A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.

Our whole life is like a play.

For he that once is good, is ever great.

I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.

When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.

The one who admonishes his brother secretly, he has advised sincerely and has honored him.

To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him.

I kind of knew something was going on, and my older brothers and sisters were singing be-boppish kinds of stuff in the living room.

I love music; my dad and brother were very musical, and music just happens to be one of my hobbies that became my vocation.

Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.

Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense.

I started to take a keen interest in food when I was 16 years old.

When I was a young teenager my mother always encouraged my brother, my sister and I to get involved in the kitchen.