To be in anger is impiety, but who is man that is not angry?

There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.

Be merry; you have cause, so have we all, of joy; for our escape is much beyond our loss . . . . then wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort.

Let me have men about me that are fat... Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

Speak low, if you speak love.

Wishers were ever fools.

A man should be what he seems.