» O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.
» Action is eloquence.
» Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
» If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.
» Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.
» Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
» I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the anciently, stealing, fighting.
» O curse of marriage that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites!
» Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.
» Thou art all ice. Thy kindness freezes.