"Muster your wits; stand in your own..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“He that is thy friend indeed, he will help you in your need.”

“None can cure their harms by wailing them.”

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans.”

“In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others.”

“I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.”

“Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.”

“It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.”

“Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.”

“A man of wisdom delights in water.”