Ceremony was but devised at first

To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,
Recanting goodness, sorry ere 't is shown;
But where there is true friendship, there needs

none.

Timon of Athens, 1. ii.

MAY TWENTY-NINTH

Why should proud summer boast Before the birds have any cause to sing?... At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.

Love's Labour's Lost, 1. i.

MAY THIRTIETH

Knocks

go and come; God's vassals drop and die; And sword and shield,

In bloody field,

Doth win immortal fame.

King Henry V, III. ii.

MAY THIRTY-FIRST

The wound of peace is surety,

Surety secure; but modest doubt is call'd

The beacon of the wise.

Troilus and Cressida, II. ii.

Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law
My services are bound.

King Lear, I. ii.

JUNE SECOND

Look sweet, speak fair, become disloyalty;
Apparel vice like virtue's harbinger;

Bear a fair presence, though your heart be tainted;
Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint.

JUNE THIRD

Comedy of Errors, III. ii.

Base men, being in love, have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.

Othello, II. i.

JUNE FOURTH

There are no tricks in plain and simple faith;
But hollow men, like horses hot at hand,

Make gallant show and promise of their mettle,
But when they should endure the bloody spur,

They fall their crests, and, like deceitful jades,
Sink in the trial.
Julius Cæsar, IV. ii.

JUNE FIFTH

If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep,
My dreams presage some joyful news at hand.
My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne;
And all this day an unaccustom'd spirit
Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.

Romeo and Juliet, v. i.

JUNE SIXTH

Omission to do what is necessary

Seals a commission to a blank of danger;
And danger, like an ague, subtly taints
Even then when we sit idly in the sun.

Troilus and Cressida, III. iii.

JUNE SEVENTH

Remember thee!

Yea, from the table of my memory

I'll wipe away all trivial fond records,

All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past,
That youth and observation copied there;
And thy commandment all along shall live
Within the book and volume of my brain,
Unmix'd with baser matter.

Hamlet, I. v.

JUNE EIGHTH

By my christendom,

So I were out of prison and kept sheep,
I should be as happy as the day is long.

King John, IV. i.

JUNE NINTH

Then do we sin against our own estate
When we may profit meet, and come too late.

Timon of Athens, v. i.

Celerity is never more admir'd

Than by the negligent.

Antony and Cleopatra, III. vii.

JUNE TENTH

I have a heart as little apt as yours,

But yet a brain that leads my use of

anger

To better vantage.

Coriolanus, III. ii.

JUNE ELEVENTH

The current that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth

rage;

But when his fair course is not hindered,

He makes sweet music with the enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge

He overtaketh in his pilgrimage.

Two Gentlemen of Verona, II. vii.

The sin of my ingratitude even now
Was heavy on me: thou art so far before
The swiftest wing of recompense is slow
To overtake thee.

Macbeth, I. iv.

JUNE THIRTEENTH

The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish
Cut with her golden oars the silver stream,
And greedily devour the treacherous bait.

Much Ado About Nothing, III. i.

JUNE FOURTEENTH

O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou, That, notwithstanding thy capacity

Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,

Of what validity and pitch soe'er,

But falls into abatement and low price,

Even in a minute.

Twelfth Night, 1. i.

JUNE FIFTEENTH

Full merrily the humble-bee doth sing,
Till he hath lost his honey and his sting;
And being once subdued in armed tail,
Sweet honey and sweet notes together fail.
Troilus and Cressida, v. x.