You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs.

Thou knowest, winter tames man, woman, and beast.

One half of me is yours, the other half is yours, Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours.

To persist in doing wrong extenuates not the wrong, but makes it much more heavy.

The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.

Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Here's three on's are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more than such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.