Though men can cover crimes with bold stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

Men have marble, women waxen, minds.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

It easeth some, though none it ever cured, to think their dolour others have endured.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

If that the world and love were young,<br /> And truth in every shepherd's tongue,<br /> These pretty pleasures might me move<br /> To live with thee and be...

How hard it is for women to keep counsel!

Have you not heard it said full oft, a woman's nay doth stand for naught.

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together.

Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good;<br /> A shining gloss that vadeth suddenly;<br /> A flower that dies when first it 'gins to bud;<br /> A brittle...

Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity...

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

To do a great right, do a little wrong.

The quality of mercy is not strain'd, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.

I do oppose my patience to his fury, and am arm'd to suffer with a quietness of spirit, the very tyranny and rage of his.

There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.