I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on others, to taste their valor.

When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

There's some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable.

I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.

Gold--what can it not do, and undo?