I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage: but doth not the appetite alter? a man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Who can be patient in extremes?

None can cure their harms by wailing them.

Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.

A politician... one that would circumvent God.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell

He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which enriches him and makes me poor indeed.