When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

A shy face is better than a forward heart.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.

Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.

There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.