Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
Decency, not to dare to do that in public which it is decent enough to do in private.
I have seen people rude by being over-polite.
I would rather be old for a shorter time than be old before my time.
There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as doth anger
Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.