William Shakespeare

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.

No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage, which they will climb incontinent, or else be incontinent before marriage.

Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, whose fullness of perfection lies in him.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.