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Polonius to Laertes --Give thy thoughts no tongue Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The freinds thou hast, & their adoption try'd Grapple them to thy Soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm, with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in Bear it, that the Opposer may beware of thee. Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice Take each man's censure, but reserve thy Judgment, Costly thy habit, as thy purse can buy But not exprest in fancy - rich not gaudy, For the apparel oft proclaims the man. Neither a borrower, nor a lender be; For loan, oft loses, both itself & freind; This above all - To thine own self be true And it must follow, as the night the day Thou canst not then, be false to any man.
