Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

For she had eyes and chose me.

Be not too tame neither, but let your own Discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

Suit the action to the word : the word to the action : with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.

Beware the ides of March.

That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.

It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.