Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
Boldness be my friend.
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
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.
The wheel is come full circle.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
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.
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
