'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.

Better it were not to live than to live a coward.

Take special care that thou never trust any friend or servant with any matter that may endanger thine estate; for so shalt thou make thyself a bond-slave to him that thou trustest, and leave thyself always to his mercy.

Whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow the truth too near the heels it may haply strike out his teeth.

Hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.

What is our life? A play of passion. Our mirth the music of division. Our mother's wombs the tyring houses be, Where we are drest for this short Comedy.

When a felon's not engaged in his employment Or maturing his felonious little plans His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest man's Ah! When constabulary duty's to be done A policeman's lot is not a happy one.