When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.

All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.

Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.

Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?

If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking. In the meantime, let me be that I am, and seek not toalter me.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait.