As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.

When I waked, I cried to dream again

As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions litter’d in one day, and I the elder and more terrible.

The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.