'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.
To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life.
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.
And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
A friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady.
And, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they think there is one Supreme Being that made and governs the world, whom they call, in the language of their country, Mithras.
By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.
Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.