The summer's flower is to the summer sweet Though to itself it only live and die
William ShakespearePolonius: Do you know me, my lord? Hamlet: Excellent well. You are a fishmonger.
William ShakespeareAssume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.
William ShakespeareThis goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?
William Shakespeare