Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.

Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long

When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.