Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in great danger I recover them.

He is not great who is not greatly good.

How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?

She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them

Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.