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.

The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.

Never spend anything before thou have it; for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.

The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.

Trust few men; above all, keep your follies to yourself.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

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.