Variant: When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Source: Romeo and Juliet

“O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus; and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs, and peep about
To find ourselves dishonourable graves.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Source: Julius Caesar

“Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince;
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“This above all: to thine own self be true.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Variant: Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.
Source: Romeo and Juliet

“What's past is prologue.”

William Shakespeare The Tempest

Source: The Tempest

“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.”

William Shakespeare The Tempest

Prospero, Act IV, scene i.
Source: The Tempest (1611)

“Conscience doth make cowards of us all.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“Presume not that I am the thing I was.”

William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 2

Source: Henry IV, Part 2