Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads.

Who's a prince or beggar in the grave?

Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne'er asks the body counsel.

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.

Base natures ever judge a thing above them, and hate a power they are too much obliged to.

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.