Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes: it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause transform ourselves into beasts!

The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.

Nothing can come of nothing.

Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.

There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out.

Oft expectation fails and most oft there Where most it promises, and oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.

Policy sits above conscience.