Absence from those we love is self from self a deadly banishment.
Be great in act as you have been in thought.
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.
Sweet are the uses of adversity.
Ambition's like a circle on the water, which never ceases to enlarge itself, 'till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.
Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shad.
Vaulting ambition which o'er leaps itself.
Honesty coupled to beauty ois to have honey a sauce to sugar.
My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.
O' he sits high in all the people's hearts; And that which would appear offence in us, His countenance, like richest alchemy, Will change to virtue and to worthiness.
True nobility is exempt from fear.
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired.
They that touch pitch will be defined.
Men at some time are masters of their fates.
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
The fool doth think he is wise , but the wise man knows himself a fool.
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou can't not then be false to any man.
Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing where with we fly to heaven.
I do desire we may be better strangers.
With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.
Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculed in the country, as the behaviour of the country is most mockable at the court.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
They do not love that do not show their love.
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
Love is a spirit of all compact of fire.
Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.
My patience to his fury, and am arm'd to suffer, with a quietness of spirit, the very tyranny and rage of his.
For there was never yet a philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.
