And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire, The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she unmasks her beauty to the moon.

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

To beguile the time, look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue.

Being of no power to make his wishes good: His promises fly so beyond his state That what he speaks is all in debt; he owes For every word.

There's beggary in love that can be reckoned

A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as the schoolboy on his way to school. (Act 2, scene 2)

There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.