Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; take each man's censure but reserve thy judgement.
    - "Hamlet," Act 1 scene 3

Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.
    - William Shakespeare

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
    - William Shakespeare

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
    - William Shakespeare

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
    - William Shakespeare, "As You Like It," Act 5 scene 1

To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep:
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to,--'t is a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.
    - William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 1

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
    - William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2

Nothing will come of nothing.
    - William Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 1 scene 1

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
    - William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 4 scene 1

Out, damned spot! out, I say!
    - William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 5 scene 1

Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.
    - William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 1 scene 4

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
    - William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 2 scene 1

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.
    - William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 2 scene 2

They say, best men are moulded out of faults,
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad.
    - William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 5 scene 1

Truth is truth
To the end of reckoning.
    - William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 5 scene 1

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
    - William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1

What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.
    - William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 2

This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man.
    - William Shakespeare, 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene ii

Have more than thou showest; Speak less than thou knowest.
    - William Shakespeare, 'King Lear,' Act I, Scene iv

Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
    - William Shakespeare, 'Measure for Measure'

If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.
    - William Shakespeare, 'The First Part of King Henry the IV'

Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.
    - William Shakespeare, 'Twelfth Night'

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
    - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1600