Beshrew the heart that makes my heart to groan.

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

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

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

These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.

The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.

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.