I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

Thou art all the comfort,<br> The Gods will diet me with.

I must be cruel only to be kind;<br> Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.

Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted,<br> If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning<br> Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment;<br> That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.