Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

I was a coward on instinct.

Beware the ides of March.

HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end. CLAUDIUS Alas, alas. HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. CLAUDIUS What dost thou mean by this? HAMLET Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.

In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge.

Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority.

If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have waken'd death!