Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise; But more in Troilus thousand-fold I see Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be, Yet hold I off.

Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.

Full of wise saws and modern instances.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

Virtue's office never breaks men's troth.

Thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife!