I knew when seven justices could not take up a quarrel, but when the parties were met themselves, one of them thought but of an If, as, 'If you said so, then I said so;' and they shook hands and swore brothers. Your If is the only peacemaker; much virtue in If.

They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.

That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, My figured goblets for a dish of wood, My scepter for a palmer's walking staff My subjects for a pair of carved saints and my large kingdom for a little grave.

Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.

Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.

The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.