"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together."

"But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance."

"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."

"He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again."

"There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will."

"And thus I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil."

"It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants."

"The envier praises me unknowingly."

"Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end."

"To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful."

"When you have reached a point at which you cannot see more, You must remember that there may be a point beyond this at which you can see everything."

"Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness."