Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.

Make the upcoming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim.

My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.

And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.

It's easy for someone to joke about scars if they've never been cut.

Pardon, gentles all, the flat unraised spirits that have dared on this unworthy scaffold to bring forth so great an object.

A right judgment draws us a profit from all things we see .