"Poor and content is rich, and rich enough."

"We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements."

"Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!"

"In a false quarrel there is no true valor."

"By that sin fell the angels."

"What is past is prologue."

"Now is the winter of our discontent."

"Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove."

"I say there is no darkness but ignorance."

"When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain."

"As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport."

"This above all; to thine own self be true."

"Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above."

"Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise."

"As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words."

"It is a wise father that knows his own child."

"Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair."

"O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!"

"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."

"Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness."

"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end."

"Ambition should be made of sterner stuff."

"If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me."

"It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood."

"Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge."

"Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head."

"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come."

"Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind."

"No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing."

"The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream."

"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones."

"Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear."

"I like not fair terms and a villain's mind."

"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?"

"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."

"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."

"My pride fell with my fortunes."

"Boldness be my friend."

"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 sought is good, but given unsought, is better."

"Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know."

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."

"There's many a man has more hair than wit."

"To be, or not to be: that is the question."

"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."

"How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!"

"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."

"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."

"There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting."

"'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after."