The covetous are always in want.
Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track.
Why then should words challenge Eternity, When greatest men, and greatest actions die? Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those that now are most in vogue; Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech.
In an evil hour thou bring'st her home. [You are marrying a shrew.]
Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.
Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits.