William Shakespeare

"A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as the schoolboy on his way to school. (Act 2, scene 2)"

"There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face."

"Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom."

"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."

"Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow"

"As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words."

"This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

"The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show."

"If music be the food of love, play on."

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."

"I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it."

"We know what we are, but not what we may be."

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."

"To me, fair friend, you never can be old,For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still."

"Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?"

"Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness."

"My only love sprung from my only hate!Too early seen unknown, and known too late!Prodigious birth of love it is to me,That I must love a loathed enemy."

"The course of true love never did run smooth."

"True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings."

"I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!"