“The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately.”

“At this hour
Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.”

“I take thee at thy word:
Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;
Henceforth I never will be Romeo.”

“If one good deed in all my life I did,
I do repent it from my very soul.”

“Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find.”

“When devils will the blackest sins put on
They do suggest at first with heavenly shows”

“When I do count the clock that tells the time,
And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;
When I behold the violet past prime,
And sable curls all silver'd o'er with white;
When lofty trees I see barren of leaves
Which erst from heat did canopy the herd,
And summer's green all girded up in sheaves
Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard,
Then of thy beauty do I question make,
That thou among the wastes of time must go,
Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake
And die as fast as they see others grow;
And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence
Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.”

“By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet
did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods;
since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage,
but music for the time doth change his nature.
The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils;
The motions of his spirit are dull as night
and his affections dark as Erebus:
Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music.”

Never go barefoot in a pit of vipers.

Never rub a porcupine the wrong way.

“I can call spirits from the vasty deep."

Why so can I, or so can any man. But will they come when you do call for them?”

“Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow as seek to quench the fire of love with words.”