As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire... - William Shakespeare

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

"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."

"There's a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads onto fortune, omitted, all their voyages end in shallows and miseries. Upon such tide are we now..."

"Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek mostly to know themselves."

"Tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."