It has been always held for a special principle in friendship that prosperity provideth but adversity proveth friends.

The past cannot be cured.

Men fight wars. Women win them.

I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at length in the high seat of memory.

It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.

I will have here but one mistress and no master.