Till our King Henry had shook hands with Death.

'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed

It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority-a dog's obeyed in office.

Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, more than quick words, do move a woman's mind.

Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to.