One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

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.

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

Boldness be my friend.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

I bear a charmed life.

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.