The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
I must be cruel, only to be kind.
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
I bear a charmed life.
'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.
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.
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
But men are men; the best sometimes forget.
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
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?
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
