When faced with a sea of troubles, take action, and in so doing end it.

Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.

They that have voice of lions and act of hares,--are they not monsters?

Had I no eyes but ears, my ears would love. That inward beauty and invisible; Or were I deaf, thy outward parts would move each part in me that were but sensible: Though neither eyes nor ears, to hear nor see, yet should I be in love by touching thee. 'Say, that the sense of feeling were bereft me, and that I could not see, nor hear, nor touch, and nothing but the very smell were left me, yet would my love to thee be still as much; for from the stillitory of thy face excelling comes breath perfum'd that breedeth love by smelling.

Whose heart the accustom'd sight of death makes hard.

Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange things. [Act 5, Scene 2]

For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us While it was ours.