Who said “The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.”?

“The world is in your hands, now use it.”

“We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.”

“All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players.”

“I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.”

“The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.”

“Hatreds are the cinders of affection.”

“Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred.”

“War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.”

“It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.”

“All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.”

“Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.”