"This is the short and the long of it."

"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."

"What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!"

"I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, and falls on the other."

"There's no bottom, none, in my voluptuousness: Your wives, your daughters, your matrons and your maids, could not fill up the cistern of my lust."

"A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain."

"Those that she makes fair she scarce makes honest; and those that she makes honest she makes very ill-favouredly."

"What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do."

"He should not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall."

"The elaborate caution with which the British commander now proceeded stands out in striking contrast with the temerity of his advance upon Bunker Hill in the preceding year."

"Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up."

"I utter what you would not dare think."