Come, swear it, damn thyself, lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves should fear to seize thee; therefore be double-damned, swear,--thou art honest.

The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.

Oh what fools we mortals are.

I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.

With this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature.

More of your conversation would infect my brain.

We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.