For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.
When adversities flow, then love ebbs; but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.
To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it.
The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
The rattling thunderbolt hath but his clap, the lightning but his flash, and as they both come in a moment, so do they both end in a minute.
A Rose is sweeter in the budde than full blowne.