In pious times 'ere priest craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin: When man, on many, multiply'd his kind Ere one to one was, cursedly, confined; When Nature prompted, and no law deny'd Promiscuous use of concubine and bride

Beware of the fury of the patient man

He [Shakespeare] was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul . . . He was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin

A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was wiser than the other.