Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.

Now the melancholy of God protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changable taffata, for thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything, and their intent everywhere, for that's it, that always makes a good voyage of nothing.

Look, what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on his back.

love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit

Falsehood falsehood cures

Great griefs medicine the less.

There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.