Cowards die many times before their deaths...

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

When a father gives to his son...

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

Ignorance is the curse of God...

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

To thine own self be true...

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

All the world's a stage...

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.