"But, for my own part, it was Greek to me."

"Can one desire too much of a good thing?"

"They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad."

"Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange."

"Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know."

"No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, the marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, become them with one half so good a grace as mercy does."

"You look after your empire; I'll look after myself."

"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education."

"Dig the well before you are thirsty."

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned."

"We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse."