Assume a virtue if you have it not. Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth. Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. Be to yourself as you would to your friend. Bid the dishonest man mend himself; if he mend, he is no longer dishonest. Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude. Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life. By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too. I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable. Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong. |