The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
viewAs soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
viewLove is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
viewAnd this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
viewFishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
viewOne touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
viewA peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
viewWe are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
viewLove all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
viewIt is a wise father that knows his own child.
viewFor I can raise no money by vile means.
viewMen are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
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