Take away the motive, and you take away the sin.

I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

A man prepared has half fought the battle.

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

Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.