Francis Beaumont

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

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

“Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy”

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

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

“Let us have care not to disclose our hearts to the those who shut up theirs against us”

“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”

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

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