Hoops of Steel

Polonius's Advice to his Son:
1. Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unruly thought his act.
2. Be friendly, but by no means indiscrimately social.
3. The tried and true, tested friendships that youh have, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.
4. Do not callous your hand with constant handshaking; not everyone is worth meeting or your time.
5. Beware of quarrelling, manage it so the opponent may beware of thee.
6. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
7. Take each man's opinion, but reserve thy judgement.
8. Wear the most expensive clothes your purse can afford, but not in bizarre excess; rich but not gaudy, for the apparel oft proclaim the man.
9. Neiter borrow or lend, for loans eoften lose both itself and a friend (not to mention dull the economy)
10. This above all- to thine own self be true. And it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not be false to any man.

To his daughter:
- Tender yourself more dearly, or you'll tender me a fool.
- From this time, daughter, be some what scanter of your maiden presence. Set your entreatments at a higher rate than a command to parely.

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I am but mad north-north west.

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"For nature crescent does not grow aloe In thews and bulk, but as his temple waxes the inward service of the mind and soul grows wide withal." - Laertes

(the inward resposibility of the mind and soul is to grow and develop. a meditation of life's purpose and meaning deepens as one grows older)
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For anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and to hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature, to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of time his form of pressure.