Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
How well he's read, to reason against reading!
I dote on his very absence.
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.
I will praise any man that will praise me.
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.
Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.
There's place and means for every man alive.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.
Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.
What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.
Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.
A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
