Scars

from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene 2

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
. . .
What’s in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet. . .
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from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Act IV, Scene 3

There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat;
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.
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from Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 3 -- “Kaddish”