Wait for the season when to cast good counsels upon subsiding passion.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

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.

Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great. Oh! I could hew up rocks, and fight with flint.

By that sin fell the angels.

This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practise As full of labour as a wise man's art For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.

If there is a good will, there is great way.