All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.

Assume a virtue if you have it not.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

Use almost can change the stamp of nature.