Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.

Assume a virtue if you have it not.

To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, gives in your weakness strength unto your foe.

Tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus.

He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.

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.

How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?