Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. *Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow.*

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

To be furious, is to be frighted out of fear.

Affection is a coal that must be cooled; else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire.

But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If you have ever looked on better days, If ever been where bells knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast, If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear, And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied, Let gentleness my strong enforcement be. . . .

While he was drunk asleep, or in his rage, or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed.