Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.

Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.

It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught as men take diseases, one of another.

DEMETRIUS Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield Thy crazed title to my certain right. LYSANDER You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him.

There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

...too much sadness hath congealed your blood,And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.

The pleasing punishment that women bear.