"This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
"Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life."
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep."
"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures."
"But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes."
"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."
"Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven."
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs."
"As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words."
"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
"It is a wise father that knows his own child."
