Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.

A blind man can't forget the eyesight he lost, show me any beautiful girl. How can her beauty not remind me of the one whose beauty surpasses hers?

Thus can the demigod Authority Make us pay down for our offense by weight The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will, On whom it will not, so: yet still 'tis just.

My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

No stony bulwark can resist the love, and love dares what anyone can love.