No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.
Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
But are you so much in love as your rhymes speak? Neither rhyme nor reason can express how much.
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods. Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony
Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
What is past is prologue.
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from… Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
Listen to many, speak to a few.
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.