Laertes. Nature, crescent, does not grow alone In thews and bulk; but, as this temple waxes, The inward service of the mind and soul

Grows wide withal.

Hamlet. Act i. Scene 3.

UNDUE RESPECT TO ANTIQUITY.

Coriolanus. What custom wills, in all things should we

do it,

The dust on antique time would lie unswept,

And mountainous error be too highly heap'd
For truth to over-peer.

Coriolanus. Act ii. Scene 3.

Adoption strives with nature; and choice breeds
A native slip to us from foreign seeds.

Than to be sure they do: for certainties

Either are past remedies; or, timely knowing,

The remedy then born.

Cymbeline. Act i. Scene 7.

EFFECT OF NIGHT ON THE SENSES.

Hermia. Dark night, that from the eye his function takes, The ear more quick of apprehension makes; Wherein it doth impair the seeing sense,

It pays the hearing double recompense.

Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Scene 2.

VARIETY PLEASING.

Prince Henry. If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work;

But when they seldom come, they wish'd-for come;
And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.

1st part King Henry IV. Act i. Scene 2.

POVERTY AND HONESTY.

Touchstone. Rich honesty dwells, like a miser, in a poor house; as your pearl, in your foul oyster.

As you like it. Act v. Scene 4.

WHAT IS POVERTY?

Goneril. What need you five and twenty, ten, or five,* To follow in a house?

Regan.

What need one?

King Lear. Oh, reason not the need! our basest beggars

Are in the poorest thing superfluous:

Allow not nature more than nature needs,

Man's life is cheap as beast's.

King Lear. Act ii. Scene 4.

"Attendants" understood.

Theseus.

KIND INTENTIONS APPRECIATED.

Never anything can be amiss,

When simpleness and duty tender it.

And what poor duty cannot do,

Noble respect takes it in might,* not merit.

Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Scene 1.

PRESERVATION FROM DANGER.

Gonzalo. 'Beseech you, Sir, be merry: you have cause

(So have we all) of joy; for our escape

Is much beyond our loss: our hint of woe +
Is common; every day, some sailor's wife,

The masters of some merchant, and the merchant,
Have just our theme of woe: but for the miracle,
I mean our preservation, few in millions

Can speak like us: then wisely, good Sir, weigh
Our sorrow with our comfort.

Tempest. Act ii. Scene 1.

66 PUT NOT YOUR TRUST IN PRINCES, ETC."

Cardinal Wolsey.

Oh, how wretched
Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours!
There is, betwixt that smile he would aspire to,
That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,
More pangs and fears than wars or women have;
And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,

Never to hope again.

King Henry VIII. Act iii. Scene 2.

* Makes allowance for want of ability.

+ Threatened danger.

WHO IS THE HERETIC?

Paulina. It is an heretic, that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it.

Winter's Tale. Act ii. Scene 3.

SPECIAL ABSURDITY OF LEARNED FOLLY.

Princess. None are so surely caught, when they are

catch'd,

As wit turn'd fool: folly, in wisdom hatch'd,

Hath wisdom's warrant, and the help of school;
And wit's own grace to grace a learned fool.

Love's Labour's lost. Act v. Scene 2.

NEMO MORTALIUM OMNIBUS HORIS SAPIT."

Camillo. I may be negligent, foolish, and fearful;
In every one of these no man is free,

But that his negligence, his folly, fear,
Amongst the infinite doings of the world,
Sometimes puts forth.

Winter's Tale. Acti. Scene 2.

CIVIL DISSENSION.

K. Henry VI. Civil dissension is a viperous worm, That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth,

1st part King Henry VI. Act iii. Scene 1.

Portia.

A TIME FOR ALL THINGS.

I think,

The nightingale, if she should sing by day,
When every goose is cackling, would be thought

No better a musician than the wren.

How many things by season season'd are
To their right praise and true perfection!

Merchant of Venice. Act v. Scene 1.

OLD AGE NOT THE TIME FOR JESTING.

K. Henry V. How ill white hairs become a fool, and jester!

2nd part King Henry IV. Act v. Scene 5.

Serves for the matter that is then born in it.

Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Scene 2.

FOOLERY A SCIENCE.

Viola. This fellow's wise enough to play the fool;

And to do that well, craves a kind of wit;

He must observe their mood on whom he jests,
The quality of persons, and the time;
And, like the haggard, check at every feather
That comes before his eye. This is a practice
As full of labour as a wise man's art;
For, folly that he wisely shows, is fit;
But wise men, folly fall'n, quite taint their wit.

Twelfth Night. Act iii. Scene 1.

Helicanus.

FLATTERY DANGEROUS.

Flattery is the bellows blows up sin;

The thing the which is flatter'd, but a spark,

To which that breath gives heat and stronger glowing.

Pericles. Acti. Scene 2.