I would not live over my hours past ... not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.
As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
I had rather stand the shock of a basilisk than the fury of a merciless pen.
He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.
Oblivion is not to be hired.
Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.