“Jealousy is not love, but self-love.”

“Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him.”

“Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.”

“Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.”

“We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.”

“Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.”

“Unsubstantial Death is amorous.”

“. . . nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death To throw away the dearest thing he owed, As 'twere a careless trifle.”

“Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.”

“I do desire we may be better strangers.”

“Let's meet as little as we can”

“I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company.”

“Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves.”

“I should be suspicious of what I want.”

“Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.”

“Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.”

“The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”