The native hue of resolution is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought, and enterprises of great pith and moment, with this regard their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.
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 mightier man, the mightier is the thing that makes him honoured or begets him hate; for greatest scandal waits on greatest state.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
The loyalty well held to fools does make our faith mere folly.
The king’s name is a tower of strength, which they upon the adverse party want.
The jewel that we find, we stoop and take it because we see it; but what we do not see we tread upon, and never think of it.
The insolence of office, and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes.
The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.
The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets.
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to plague us.
The force of his own merit makes his way.