He is well paid that is well satisfied.
Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather have eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.
A friend i'the court is better than a penny in purse.
O, had I but followed the arts!
God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
In the corrupted currents of this word offence's gilded hand may solve by justice, and oft, tis seen the wicked prize itself buys out the law: but 'tis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies in his true nature; And we ourselves
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world.
Tis not enough to help the feeble up, But to support him after
Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale
Tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow; But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself