Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
What infinite heart's-easeMust kings neglect, that private men enjoy!And what have kings, that privates have not too,Save ceremony, save general ceremony?And what art thou, thou idle ceremony?What kin...
When a father gives to his son, both laugh when a son gives to his father, both cry.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
Our doubts are traitors, and make us loose the good that we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
I take thee at thy word:Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;Henceforth I never will be Romeo.
Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won
Nice customs curtsy to great kings.
Come what come may time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
Alas, my lord, your wisdom is consumed in confidence.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
The Devil hath powerTo assume a pleasing shape.
The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones.
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
Those that much covet are with gain so fond,For what they have not, that which they possessThey scatter and unloose it from their bond,And so, by hoping more, they have but less;Or, gaining more, the...
They do not love that do not show their love.
One pain is lessened by another’s anguish. ... Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.
Love is not love which alters it when alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove: O no! It is an ever fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken; it is the star to every wanderin...
Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
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.