The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.

Behind the cross is the devil.

The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.

There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.

Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.