"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."

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

"Life is but a walking Shadow, a poor Player That struts and frets his Hour upon the Stage, And then is heard no more; It is a tall Tale, Told by an Idiot, full of Sound and Fury, Signifying nothing.'"

"Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing."

"Exit, pursued by a bear."

"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."

"It's misleading to suppose there is any basic difference between education and entertainment."

"There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it."

"ILLUMINATI, n. A sect of Spanish heretics of the latter part of the sixteenth century; so called because they were light weights -- _cunctationes illuminati_."

"All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago."

"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"