If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.

Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you're a good man, you're a wonder!

The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.

Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.

Life is not living, but living in health.

What's a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.

You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.