These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

The king hath note of all that they intend, by interception which they dream not of.

When the mind's free, The Body's delicate.

Discharge my followers; let them hence away, From Richard's night to Bolingbrooke's fair day.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

You shall more command with years than with your weapons.

We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of our prayers.