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| A certain degree of soul is indispensable to save us the expense of salt. | 1 |
| A good king is a public servant. | 2 |
| An innocent man needs no eloquence; his innocence is instead of it. | 3 |
| Bad men excuse their faults; good men will leave them. | 4 |
| Care that has enter’d once into the breast, / Will have the whole possession ere it rest. | 5 |
| Cut men’s throats with whisperings. | 6 |
| Drink to me only with thine eyes, / And I will pledge with mine; / Or leave a kiss but in the cup, / And I’ll not look for wine. | 7 |
| Fear to do base, unworthy things is valour; / If they be done to us, to surfer them / Is valour too. | 8 |
| Give me a look, give me a face, / That makes simplicity a grace, / Robes loosely flowing, hair as free; / Such sweet neglect more taketh me, / Than all the adulteries of art; / They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. | 9 |
| Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times. | 10 |
| Great honours are great burdens; but on whom / They’re cast with envy, he doth bear two loads. | 11 |
| He that has been taught only by himself has had a fool for a master. | 12 |
| He was not of an age, but for all Time, / Sweet Swan of Avon. | 13 |
| His thoughts look through his words. | 14 |
| Ill fortune never crushes that man whom good fortune deceived not. | 15 |
| In small proportion we just beauties see, / And in short measures life may perfect be. | 16 |
| It will never out of the flesh that’s bred in the bone. | 17 |
| Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee. | 18 |
| Laugh and be fat. | 19 |
| Learning needs rest; sovereignty gives it. Sovereignty needs counsel; learning affords it. | 20 |
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| Let not your sail be bigger than your boat. | 21 |
| Let them call it mischief; / When it is past and prosper’d it will be virtue. | 22 |
| No greater hell than to be a slave to fear. | 23 |
| No man can be a good poet without first being a good man. | 24 |
| No man can be a poet / That is not a good cook, to know the palates / and several tastes of the time. | 25 |
| Of all wild beasts, preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer. | 26 |
| Small Latin and less Greek. Of Shakespeare’s knowledge. | 27 |
| Sweet Swan of Avon. Of Shakespeare. | 28 |
| Talking is the disease of age. | 29 |
| The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting. | 30 |
| Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike, / One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike. | 31 |
| When affliction thunders over our roofs, to hide our heads and run into our graves shows us no men, but makes us fortune’s slaves. | 32 |
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