What is past is prologue.- William Shakespeare
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.
Well, if Fortune be a woman, she is a good wench for this gear.
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
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.
We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
To do a great right do a little wrong.
To be, or not to be: that is the question.
This one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
