Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

The apparel oft proclaims the man.

You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound.

Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity.

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.

I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.