True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.

It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.

Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.

That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.

Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.