You Know Who You Are, But Know

How Oft The Sight Of Means To Do Ill Deeds Makes Ill Deeds Done!

Hope Is A Lover's Staff; Walk Hence With That And Manage It Against Despairing Thoughts.

Two May Keep Counsel Putting One Away!

What Can Be Happier Than For A Man, Conscious Of Virtuous Acts, And Content With Liberty, To Despise All Human Affairs?

Promising Is The Very Air O' Th' Time; It Opens The Eyes Of Expectation. Performance Is Ever Duller For His Act; And, But In The Plainer And Simpler Kind Of People, The Deed Of Saying Is Quite Out Of Use. To Promise Is Most Courtly And Fashionable; Performance Is A Kind Of Will Or Testament Which Argues A Great Sickness In His Judgment That Makes It.