“We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act IV, Scene 1

“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else concealing it, my heart will break.”

William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, Scene 3

“Then, heaven, set ope thy everlasting gates,

To entertain my vows of thanks and praise!”

William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 9

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin”

William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act III, Scene 3

“Out, out, brief candle!

Life’s 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 tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene 5

“Come unto these yellow sands,

And then take hands.

Curtsied when you have and kissed

The wild waves whist,

Foot is featly here and there;

And, sweet sprites, the burden bear.

William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I, Scene 2

“How far that little candle throws his beams!

So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”

William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act V, Scene 1

“As when the golden sun salutes the morn

And, having gilt the ocean with his beams,

Gallops the zodiac in his glistering coach

And overlooks the highest-peering hills”

William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act II, Scene 1

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act I, Scene 1

“Stars, hide your fires,

Let not light see my black and deep desires”

William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act I, Scene 4

“Each man delights in the work that suits him best.”

Homer, The Odyssey

“We are oft to blame in this,

('Tis too much proved) that with devotion's visage

And pious action we do sugar o'er

The devil himself.

~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1

“The next day we set sail from there and arrived off Chios. The day after that we crossed over to Samos, and on the following day arrived at Miletus.”

The Acts of the Apostles, Chapter 20, Verse 15

“Let Hercules himself do what he may,

The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.”

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act V, Scene 1

“Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood,

learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality,

and such like, the spice and salt that season a man?”

William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act I, Scene 2

“I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again

Mine ear is much enamour'd of thy note

Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful.”

William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III, Scene 1

“Adversity’s sweet milk, philosophy.”

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene 3

“O God, that one might read the book of fate

And see the revolution of the times.”

William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Act III, Scene 1

“Boldness be my friend:

Arm me audacity from head to foot!”

William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act 1 Scene 6

“When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.”

William Shakespeare, A Winter’s Tale, Act IV, Scene 3