"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once."
"Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear."
"What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how
like an angel, in apprehension how like a god."
"Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better."
"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."
"To do a great right do a little wrong."
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
"This above all; to thine own self be true."
"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."
"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools."
"I am not bound to please thee with my answer."
"Farewell, fair cruelty."
"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."
"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"
"Nothing can come of nothing."
"How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world."
"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."
"Love is too young to know what conscience is."
"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."
"If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?"
"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."
"O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention."
"No legacy is so rich as honesty."
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."
"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
"As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport."
"Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered."
"Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds."
"The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief."
"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me."
"My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy."
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."
"As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words."
