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Stone walls do not a prison make
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an...
If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free,
-- Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such...
Yet this inconstancy is such,
As you too shall adore;
I could not love thee, Dear, so much
Loved I not honour...
Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind,
That from the nunnery
Of thy chaste breast, and quiet mind,
To war and arms...
When I was writing `The Shadow of the Glen' I got more aid than any learning would have given me from a chink in the...
I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a...
As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the gradual and...
In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured as a nut or apple.
Source:...
Yet true it is, as cow chews cud,
And trees at spring do yield forth bud,
Except wind stands as never it...
Sweet April showers
Do spring May flowers.
Source: Five Hundred Points of Good...
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Few lend (but fools)
Their working...
The stone that is rolling can gather no moss;
For master and servant oft changing is...
Some respite to husbands the weather may send,
But housewives' affairs have never an...
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be,
Yet such wherein men may thy judgment...
Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used...
Go to your business, I say, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.
Source:...
I have been toiling and moiling for the prettiest piece of china, my dear.
Source:...
I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.