Gold--what can it not do, and undo?

Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.

Hung be the heavens with black! Yield, day, to night!

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

As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor.

The means that heaven yields must be embraced, and not neglected; else, if heaven would, and we will not heaven's offer, we refuse the proffered means of succor and redress.

It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.