Self-love is the most inhibited sin in the canon.
All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so; And, being done, thus Wall away doth go.
If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.
Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.
We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.