Virtue's office never breaks men's troth.

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

Have you not love enough to bear with me, when that rash humor which my mother gave me makes me forgetful.

Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.' Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces; Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces

Silence is the perfect herald of joy.

Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.

What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.