You are no better than you should be.

- Francis Beaumont

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

- Francis Beaumont

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

- Francis Beaumont

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

- Francis Beaumont

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…

- Francis Beaumont

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…

- Francis Beaumont

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…

- Francis Beaumont

Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

- Francis Beaumont

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, …

- Francis Beaumont