Marriage is a matter of more worth than to be dealt in by attorneyship.
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious-dear than life.
If you have hitherto conceal’d this sight, Let it be tenable in your silence still; And whatsoever else shall hap to-night, Give it an understanding, but no tongue.
I will kiss thy lips; Haply, some poison yet doth hang on them.
Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest, Ride more than thou goest, Learn more than thou trowest, Set less than thou throwest.
Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, whiles night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.
From women’s eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world.
A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit: how quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!
You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.
Winter’s not gone yet, if the wild-geese fly that way.
Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions.
