The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.