English playwright, poet, and actor
I was adored once too.
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
Boldness be my friend.
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.