A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.
The eye sees more than the heart knows.
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.