Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

If men wound you with injuries, meet them with patience; hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it, and oblivion takes away the scar. It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars.

You are no better than you should be.