The play 's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

Things are only impossible until they are not.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.