When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.
William ShakespeareHe draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
William ShakespeareOur purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich
William ShakespeareO, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain: for they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. he, that no more must say, is listened more than they whom youth and ease have taught to gloze; more are men's ends marked, than their lives before: the setting sun, and music at the close, as the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last; writ in rememberance more than things long past
William Shakespeare