Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.

Love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

Fondling,' she saith, 'since I have hemm'd thee here Within the circuit of this ivory pale, I'll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer; Feed where thou wilt, on mountain or in dale: Graze on my lips, and if those hills be dry, Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking. In the meantime, let me be that I am, and seek not toalter me.

Lawn as white as driven snow; Cyprus black as e'er was crow; Gloves as sweet as damask roses.

People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.