Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

Here, or nowhere, is the thing we seek.

When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.

Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.

Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger.

The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.

In an evil hour thou bring'st her home. [You are marrying a shrew.]