Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.

Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.

That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.

Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.

A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.