“Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.”

“Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.”

“Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.”

“The more the change, the more it is the same thing.”

“Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.”

“For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?”

“Fair ladies, masked, are roses in their bud;Dismasked, the damask sweet commixture shown,Are angels vailing clouds, or roses blown.”

“Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.”

“Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face! I had rather lie in the woolen.”

“There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail.”

“I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster”

“Be great in act, as you have been in thought.”

“He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.”

“Faster than spring-time showers comes thought on thought.”