It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator.

Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!

Is this a vision? Is this a dream? Do I sleep?

Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?