Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
As soon go kindle fire with snow as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts his acts being seven ages.
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued and neither party loser.
Men are April when they woo December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids but the sky changes when they are wives.
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
And this our life exempt from public haunt finds tongues in trees books in the running brooks sermons in stones and good in everything.
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
Fishes live in the sea as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
The lunatic the lover and the poet are of imagination all compact.
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
Now God be praised that to believing souls gives light in darkness comfort in despair.