Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.
The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.
Verily, I swear, it is better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perked up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow.
Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.