"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body."

-SHAKESPEARE

"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils."

-SHAKESPEARE

"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. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures."

-SHAKESPEARE

"In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger: stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, then lend the eye a terrible aspect; now set the teeth, and stretch the nostril wide, hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit to his full height!"

-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

"Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest."

-SHAKESPEARE,
King Lear

"Here could I breathe my soul into the air."

-SHAKESPEARE,

Henry VI, Part 2

"What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals—and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?"

-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE,

Hamlet

"Conversations should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood."

-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

"To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first."

-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

"How far that little candle throws his beams! / So shines a good deed in a naughty world."

-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE,

Merchant of Venice

“A pack of blessings lights upon thy back;

Happiness courts thee in her best array;

But, like a misbehaved and sullen wench,

Thou pout’st upon thy fortune and thy love:

Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable.”

-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE,

Romeo & Juliet

"Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,
Which we ascribe to Heaven."

-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, All's Well That Ends Well

“Lord what fools these mortals be.”

-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer Night's Dream

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact.”

-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”

-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

“Poor and content is rich and rich enough.”

-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”

-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Measure for Measure

“Thought is free.”

-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night