You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead.

If the masses can love without knowing why, they also hate without much foundation.

Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

Thus can the demigod Authority Make us pay down for our offense by weight The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will, On whom it will not, so: yet still 'tis just.

To be in anger is impiety, but who is man that is not angry?

Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?