For my part, I can compare her (a gossip) to nothing but the sun; for, like him, she knows no rest, nor ever sets in one place but to rise in another.

All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.

Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.

Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.

I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!