A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity.

I prithee send me back my heart, Since I cannot have thine; For if from yours you will not part, Why, then, shouldst thou have mine?

Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.

But as when an authentic watch is shown, Each man winds up and rectifies his own, So in our very judgments.

Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.

Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together; And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather.

Success is a rare paint, hides all the ugliness.