Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.
Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.
If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.
I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits.
That when we live no more, We may live ever
To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings/Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun/For my mean Pen are too superior things.