So fair and foul a day i had not seen.

In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil.

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

Suit the action to the word : the word to the action : with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

Small things make base men proud.

Yet this my comfort: when your words are done, My woes end likewise with the evening sun.