Those who are the hardest for me to love are probably those who need my love the most.

- William Cartwright

Love makes those young whom age doth chill, And whom he finds young, keeps still.

- William Cartwright

The fool inherits, but the wise must get.

- William Cartwright

Fancy can save or kill; it hath clos'd up Wounds when the balsam could not, and without The aid of salves:--to think hath been a cure. For witchcraft…

- William Cartwright

Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the w…

- William Cartwright

There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thenc…

- William Cartwright

Brave spirits are a balsam to themselves, There is a nobleness of mind that heals Wounds beyond salves.

- William Cartwright