Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.
Dive on them and squash them if you must.
Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.
God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
