“Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves”
William Davenant
“Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done: perseverance, dear my lord, Ke”
William Shakespeare
“The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king”
“The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him”
Cyril Connolly
“Some say that ever 'gainst the season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor wi”
“Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.”
Thomas Browne Sr.
