Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.

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

Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?" Malvolio: "Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art." Feste: "But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in you wits than a fool.

The undeserver may sleep when the man of action is called on.

Where souls do couch on flowers we'll hand in hand.

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

Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.