Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
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.
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
Thou know'st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.
Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
There's place and means for every man alive.
But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.
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.
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
By that sin fell the angels.
I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
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, had I but followed the arts!
O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
