Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age still less civilized Shakespeare might have been wilder, but would not have been vulgar.

Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!

Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder.

I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.

Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.

Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.

I can forgive injuries, but never benefits.