"A man's attire, and excessive laughter, and gait, show what he is."—Ecclesias. xix. 30.
"—— The apparel oft proclaims the man."—Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 3.
"Unus Pellæo juveni non sufficit orbis:
Æstuat infelix angusto limite mundi,
Ut Gyaræ clausus scopulis, parvâque Seripho."—Juv. x. 168.
"Hamlet. What have you, my good friends, deserved at the hands of fortune, that she sends you to prison here?
Guildenstern. Prison, my lord!
Ham. Denmark's a prison.
Rosencrantz. Then is the world one.
Ham. A goodly one, in which there are many confines, wards, and dungeons; Denmark being one of the worst.
Ros. We think not so, my lord.
Ham. Why, then, 'tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me it is a prison.
Ros. Why, then, your ambition makes it one; 'tis too narrow for your mind."—Shakspeare, Hamlet, Act II. Sc. 2.