To be direct and honest is not safe.

For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to.

Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot.

Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight; which therein works a miracle in Nature, making them lightest that wear most of it: so are those crisped snaky golden locks which make such wanton gambols with the wind upon supposed fairness, often known to be the dowry of a second head, the skull that bred them in the sepulchre.

What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?

Love runs away from those chasing her, and those who run away, she throws herself on his neck.