“Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back,Guiltie of dust and sin.”

“Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.”

“I will complain, yet praise;I will bewail, approve:And all my sowre-sweet dayesI will lament, and love.”

“Man is no star, but a quick coalOf mortal fire:Who blows it not, nor doth controlA faint desire,”

“Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,The bridal of the earth and sky;The dew shall weep thy fall tonight,For thou must die.”

“Who says that fictions only and false hairBecome a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?Is all good structure in a winding stair?”

“Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.”

“A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.”

“Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.”

“Life is half spent before we know what it is.”

“None knows the weight of another's burden.”