This chapter's epigraph comes from a famous line from Shakespeare's play Hamlet, in which Hamlet says, "I am not ashamed of what I have done, but I am ashamed of the things that I have not done." In other words, Hamlet is ashamed that he has not done the things he has said he would have done if he had been allowed to do them. He is also ashamed of himself for not having done more to help the less fortunate in his life.