King Richard II. — III. 2
Feasts
Small cheer, and great welcome, makes a merry feast.
Comedy of Errors — III. 1
Filial Ingratitude
Ingratitude! Thou marble-hearted fiend,
More hideous, when thou showest thee in a child,
Than the sea-monster.
King Lear — I. 4
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is To have a thankless child
Idem — I. 4
Forethought
Determine on some course,
More than a wild exposure to each cause
That starts i’ the way before thee.
Coriolanus — IV. 1
Fortitude
Yield not thy neck
To fortune’s yoke, but let thy dauntless mind
Still ride in triumph over all mischance.
King Henry VI., Part 3d — III. 3
Fortune
When fortune means to men most good,
She looks upon them with a threatening eye.
King John — III. 4
Greatness
Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness!
This is the state of man: To-day he puts forth
The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms,
And bears his blushing honors thick upon him;
The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost;
And,—when he thinks, good easy man, full surely
His greatness is ripening,—nips his root,
And then he falls, as I do.