"No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing"
"Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing"
"If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces"
"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"
"Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know"
"Its one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall"
"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions"
"What is past is prologue"
"Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment"
"A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser"
"A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age"
"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything"
"And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse"
"An overflow of good converts to bad"
"Ambition should be made of sterner stuff"
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages"
"By that sin fell the angels"
"But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes"
"But men are men; the best sometimes forget"
"Brevity is the soul of wit"
"Boldness be my friend"
"As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words"
"As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him"
