Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.

To live thy better, let thy worst thoughts die.

It is plain there is not in nature a point of stability to be found; everything either ascends or declines; when wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home; and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition.

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.

If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.

A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby!