“Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well.”

“I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.”

“Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.”

“To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.”

“Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise — even in their own field.”

“In this abundant earth no doubt
Is little room for things worn out:
Disdain them, break them, throw them by!
And if before the days grew rough
We once were lov'd, us'd -- well enough,
I think, we've far'd, my heart and I.”

“Tis well to be merry and wise,
'Tis well to be honest and true;
'Tis well to be off with the old love,
Before you are on with the new.”

“It is all too easy to forget that there are emotional motivations in history, as well as economic ones.”

“One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.”

“He that alone would wise and mighty be,
Commands that others love as well as he.”