I do honor the very flea of his dog.

As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.

Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.

He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

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.

Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.

For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.