"Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows...." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.”

“I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust: to love him that is honest; to converse with him that is wise, and says little; to fear judgment; to fight when I cannot choose; and to eat no fish.”

“Do not spread the compost on the weeds.”

“Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.”

“Sometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you're in a fight.”

“Without goodness a man cannot endure adversity for long, nor can he enjoy prosperity for long. The good man is naturally at ease with goodness. The wise man cultivates goodness for its advantage.”

“War is no strife To the dark house and the detested wife.”

“Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise sucha paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.”

“It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.”