When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. This above all: to thine own self be true. No legacy is so rich as honesty. Brevity is the soul of wit

When faced with a sea of troubles, take action, and in so doing end it.

O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.

O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?