“Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.”
“There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself.”
“Lord we may know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
“Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.”
“'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.”
“All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.”
“Though this be madness, yet there is method in it. [Hamlet]”
“You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.”
“What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]”
“Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!”
“Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.”
“God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.”
“She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.”
“When valor preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.”
“Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.”
“There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.”
“Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.”
“Let's not burden our remembrance with a heaviness that's gone.”
“There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.”
“My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.”
“I do not much dislike the matter, but the manner of his speech.”
“He's winding up the watch of his wit. By and by it will strike.”
“I did send to you for certain sums of gold, which you denied me.”
“But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.”
“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.”
“Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.”
“How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes deeds ill done!”
“'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.”
“Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven.”
“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”