If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
‘Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
Boldness be my friend.
There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.
O, had I but followed the arts!
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
There’s many a man has more hair than wit.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
How well he’s read, to reason against reading!
I will praise any man that will praise me.
Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.