Francis Beaumont

“Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.”

“You are no better than you should be.”

“Bad's the best of us.”

“There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.”

“Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.”

“The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.”

“It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.”

“Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.”

“Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.”

“Kiss till the cow comes home.”

“But what is past my help is past my care.”

“Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.”

“Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.”