A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.

Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons that are enemies to that enterprise, doth frame a state of short perseverance.

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

Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.

According to Solomon, life and death are in the power of the tongue; and as Euripides truly affirmeth, every unbridled tongue in the end shall find itself unfortunate; for in all that ever I observed in the course of worldly things, I ever found that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues, and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby, also, than by their vices.

The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this--the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.

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.