What is past is prologue.
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.