Though I be but prince of Wales, yet I am the king of courtesy.

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner

Be advised; Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself: we may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running. Know you not, The fire that mounts the liquor til run o'er, In seeming to augment it wastes it?

Women's weapons, water-drops.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?