In struggling with misfortunes lies the true proof of virtue.

The Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.

He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing. Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.

O madam, my old heart is cracked, it's cracked!

Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.

It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.