"Man is his own star; and that soul that can Be honest is the only perfect man."

Upon an "Honest Man's Fortune."

"Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that 's gone; Violets plucked, the sweetest rain Makes not fresh nor grow again."

The Queen of Corinth. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"O woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!"

Monsieur Thomas. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"Let us do or die."

The Island Princess. Act ii. Sc. 4.

"Hit the nail on the head."

Love's Cure. Act ii. Sc. 1.

"I find the medicine worse than the malady."

Love's Cure. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"He went away with a flea in 's ear."

Love's Cure. Act iii. Sc. 3.

"There 's naught in this life sweet, If man were wise to see 't, But only melancholy; O sweetest Melancholy!"

The Nice Valour. Act iii. Sc. 3.

"Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves."

The Nice Valour. Act iii. Sc. 3.

"Drink to-day, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do 't to-morrow."

The Bloody Brother. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"And he that will to bed go sober Falls with the leaf still in October."

The Bloody Brother. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"Three merry boys, and three merry boys, And three merry boys are we, As ever did sing in a hempen string Under the gallows-tree."

The Bloody Brother. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"Hide, oh, hide those hills of snow Which thy frozen bosom bears, On whose tops the pinks that grow Are of those that April wears! But first set my poor heart free, Bound in those icy chains by thee."

The Bloody Brother. Act v. Sc. 2.

"Something given that way."

The Lover's Progress. Act i. Sc. 1.

"Deeds, not words."

The Lover's Progress. Act iii. Sc. 4.

"Naught so sweet as melancholy."

Anatomy of Melancholy. The Author's Abstract.

"I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader.

"They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader.

"We can say nothing but what hath been said. Our poets steal from Homer. . . . Our story-dressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader.

"I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader.

"It is most true, stylus virum arguit,--our style bewrays us."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader.

"I had not time to lick it into form, as a bear doth her young ones."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader.

"As that great captain, Ziska, would have a drum made of his skin when he was dead, because he thought the very noise of it would put his enemies to flight."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader.

"Like the watermen that row one way and look another."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader.

"Smile with an intent to do mischief, or cozen him whom he salutes."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader.

"Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader.

"Rob Peter, and pay Paul."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader.

"Penny wise, pound foolish."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader.

"Women wear the breeches."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader.

"Like Æsop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader.

"Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter,--some of them in hell."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader.

"Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so had he many vices; he had two distinct persons in him."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader.

"Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 1, Memb. 2, Subsect. 5.

"Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular, all his life long."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2.

"[Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio dæmonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call changelings."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 1, Subsect. 3.

"Can build castles in the air."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 1, Subsect. 3.

"Joh. Mayor, in the first book of his "History of Scotland," contends much for the wholesomeness of oaten bread; it was objected to him, then living at Paris, that his countrymen fed on oats and base grain. . . . And yet Wecker out of Galen calls it horse-meat, and fitter juments than men to feed on."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 1.

"Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 2.

"As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet knights will make this good, and prove it."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 2.

"No rule is so general, which admits not some exception."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 3.

"Idleness is an appendix to nobility."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 6.

"Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?"

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 2.

"A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 6.

"They do not live but linger."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 10.

"[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them so many anatomies."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 10.

"[Desire] is a perpetual rack, or horsemill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 11.

"[The rich] are indeed rather possessed by their money than possessors."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 12.

"Like a hog, or dog in the manger, he doth only keep it because it shall do nobody else good, hurting himself and others."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 12.

"Were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 12.

"A mere madness, to live like a wretch and die rich."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 12.