Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation..

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees..

As men do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, After supper. 'Tis their exercise..

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it..

You are no better than you should be..

If men wound you with injuries, meet them with patience; hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it, and oblivion t….

Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us..

But what is past my help is past my care..

There's nothing that allays an angry mind So soon as a sweet beauty..

Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint, And sweet thyme true, Primrose, first born child of Ver, Merry Spring-time's harbinger..

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy..

It is a word that's quickly spoken, which being unrestrained, a heart is broken.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep..

The true way to gain much is never to desire to gain too much..

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock..

Nose, nose, jolly red nose,And who gave thee that jolly red nose?Nutmegs and ginger, cinammon and cloves;And they gave me this jolly red nose..

Those have most power to hurt us, that we love..

All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, ….

My virginity, that from my childhood kept me company, is heavier than I can endure to bear. Forgive me, Cupid, for thou art god, and I a wretched cre….

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. He is not rich that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is not poor th….

Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme..