William Shakespeare

“Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.”

“For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently.”

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

“There was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently.”

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”

“Assume a virtue, if you have it not.”

“Now I am past all comforts here, but prayer.”

“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”

“We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.”

“We, ignorant of ourselves, beg often our own harms, which the wise powers deny us for our good.”

“This above all: to thine own self be true.”

“The rest is silence.”

“Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.”

“What's gone and what's past help should be past grief.”

“When sorrows come, they come not as single spies, But in battalions!”

“More in sorrow than in anger.”

“These blessed candles of the night.”

“Men at some time are masters of their fates.”

“To climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first.”

“Much rain wears the marble.”