Let life be short, else shame will be too long.

To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still.

I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library.

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

Though Death be poor, it ends a mortal woe.

Conscience is a thousand swords.

The devil shall have his bargain; for he was never yet a breaker of proverbs--he will give the devil his due.