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

God is absolutely good; and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.

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

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

Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.

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

The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.