How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

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.

In brief, sir, study what you most affect.

For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.

How hard it is for women to keep counsel!

That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimms, and makes it indistinct As water is in water

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.