And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot..

Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time'….

I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. ….

It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could'st make th….

Nothing is a courtesy unless it be meant us, and that friendly and lovingly. We owe no thanks to rivers that they carry our boats, or winds that they….

Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne'er to ….

Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back..

Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end..

Though I am young, and cannot tell Either what Death or Love is well, Yet I have heard they both bear darts, And both do aim at human hearts. And the….

I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation.

A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain t….

Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, an….

Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house..

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times..

Truth is man's proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use..

For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own styl….

Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits ….

The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him..

Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means..

Hang sorrow, care'll kill a cat..

They, who know no evil, will suspect none..