I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.

My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.

I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

A right judgment draws us a profit from all things we see .

Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.

Some report a sea-maid spawn'd him; some that he was begot between two stock-fishes. But it is certain that when he makes water his urine is congealed ice.

See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!