Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of the books to read nature; he looked inward, and found her there.

Merit challenges envy.

Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

Love is a child that talks in broken language, yet then he speaks most plain.

Love either finds equality or makes it.

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.