I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none

For my own part, I shall be glad to learn of noble men.

Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.

But it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in the most humorous sadness.

It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.

Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has; but I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.

Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out.