“We cannot wish for that we know not.”
“The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.”
“It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.”
“You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.”
“The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.”
“History is the study of the world's crime”
“This liberty is all that I request.”
“...and then, in dreaming, / The clouds methought would open and show riches / Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked / I cried to dream again.”
“Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench; I love her ten times more than e'er I did: O, how I long to have some chat with her!”
“He that sleeps feels not the tooth-ache”
“In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge.”
“Were all the letters sun, I could not see one.”
“Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.”
“I'll teach you differences.”
“Plutus himself,That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine,Hath not in nature's mystery more scienceThan I have in this ring.”
“Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.”
“The field cannot be seen from within the field.”
“I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.”
“Would the cook were o' my mind!”
“God mark thee to His grace! Thou was the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed. And might I live to see thee married once, I have my wish.”
“I wish you all the joy that you can wish.”
