The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.

I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.

The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.