You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.

Our whole life is like a play.

In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.

Guilt's a terrible thing.

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.

Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.