If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree: such a bare is madness, the youth, to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel, the cripple. The Merchant of Venice -- I. 2. PRINCES AND TITLES. Princes have but their titles for their glories, An outward honor for an inward toil; And, for unfelt imaginations, They often feel a world of restless cares: So that, between their titles, and low name, There's nothing differs but the outward fame. King Richard III. -- I. 4. QUARRELS. In a false quarrel these is no true valor. Much Ado About Nothing -- V. 1. Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just; And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. King Henry VI., Part 2d -- III. 2. RAGE. Men in rage strike those that wish them best. Othello -- II. 3. REPENTANCE. Men shall deal unadvisedly sometimes, Which after-hours give leisure to repent. King Richard III. -- IV. 4. REPUTATION. The purest treasure mortal times afford, Is--spotless reputation; that away, Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay. A jewel in a ten-times-barred-up chest I-- a bold spirit in a loyal breast. King Richard II. -- I. 1. RETRIBUTION. The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to scourge us. King Lear -- V. S. If these men have defeated the law, and outrun native punishment, though they can outstrip men, they have no wings to fly from God. King Henry V. -- IV. 1. SCARS. A sear nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honor. All's Well that Ends Well -- IV. 6. To such as boasting show their scars, A mock is due. Troilus and Cressida -- IV. 5. SELF-CONQUEST. Better conquest never can'st thou make, Than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts Against those giddy loose suggestions. King John -- III. 1. SELF-EXERTION. Men at some time are masters of their fates; The fault is not in our stars, But in ourselves. Julius Caesar -- I. 2. SELF-RELIANCE. Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven: the fated sky Gives us free scope; only, doth backward pull Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull. All's Well that Ends Well -- I. 1. SILENCE. Out of this silence, yet I picked a welcome; And in the modesty of fearful duty I read as much, as from the rattling tongue Of saucy and audacious eloquence.