Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
Prodigious actions may as well be done, by weaver's issue, as the prince's son.
Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.