The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.

What is a stronger breastplate than a heart untainted?

In sooth, I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me, you say it wearies you.

What is a city but the people? It's an economical, yet profound, definition, so far as it goes; but like most verbal equations, it can break down.

Revenge has ears more deaf than adders, to the voice of any true decision.

He was a man who would say untruths, and be ever double, both in his words and deeds.— He was never, but where he meant to ruin, pitiful.

I am constant as the Northern star, of whose true-fixed and resting quality there is no fellow in the firmament.

Oh heaven! Were man but constant, he were perfect.

Ad many strokes, though with little ax, hew down and fell the hardest timbered oak.

Those happiest smiles that played on her ripe lips seemed not to know what guests were in her eyes, which parted thence as pearls from diamonds dropped.