"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact."

"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."

"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."

"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."

"How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world."

"I dote on his very absence."

"Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent."

"The love of heaven makes one heavenly."

"Expectation is the root of all heartache."

"Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt."

"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

"Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man."

"My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy."

"Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue."

"For I can raise no money by vile means."

"Time and the hour run through the roughest day."

"They say miracles are past."

"O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!"

"The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company."

"So foul and fair a day I have not seen."

"How well he's read, to reason against reading!"

"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."

"I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire."

"He that is giddy thinks the world turns round."

"Having nothing, nothing can he lose."

"The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it."

"It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so."

"They do not love that do not show their love."

"The attempt and not the deed confounds us."

"The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns."

"Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives."

"O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil."

"Nothing can come of nothing."

"The empty vessel makes the loudest sound."

"He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural."

"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall."

"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me."

"False face must hide what the false heart doth know."