Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.

For many men that stumble at the threshold are well foretold that danger lurks within.

Experience is by industry achieved, And perfected by the swift course of time.

We must love men, ere to us they will seem worthy of our love.

The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy; his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure.

When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.