"In false quarrels there is no true valor."

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."

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

"There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries."

"A merry heart goes all the day, your sad tires in a mile-a."

"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer."

"Italia! Oh Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty"

"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die."

"Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious."

"I am excessively fond of music, but without the smallest skill or right of judging of anybody's performance."

"Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny."

"Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man."