"Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 5.

"When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 2, Subsect. 1.

"One religion is as true as another."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 2, Subsect. 1.

"They have cheveril consciences that will stretch."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 2, Subsect. 3.

"In part to blame is she, Which hath without consent bin only tride: He comes to neere that comes to be denide."

A Wife. St. 36.

"Some undone widow sits upon mine arm, And takes away the use of it; and my sword, Glued to my scabbard with wronged orphans' tears, Will not be drawn."

A New Way to pay Old Debts. Act v. Sc. 1.

"Death hath a thousand doors to let out life."

A Very Woman. Act v. Sc. 4.

"This many-headed monster."

The Roman Actor. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage Which God and Nature do with actors fill."

Apology for Actors (1612).

"I hold he loves me best that calls me Tom."

Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells.

"Seven cities warred for Homer being dead, Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head."

Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells.

"Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen."

History of Women (ed. 1624). Page 286.

"Equity is a roguish thing. For Law we have a measure, know what to trust to; Equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is Equity. 'T is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a "foot" a Chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would this be! One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'T is the same thing in the Chancellor's conscience."

Table Talk. Equity.

"Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet."

Table Talk. Friends.

"Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise; and yet everybody is content to hear."

Table Talk. Humility.

"'T is not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess."

Table Talk. Humility.

"Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide."

Table Talk. Judgments.

"Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 't is an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him."

Table Talk. Law.

"No man is the wiser for his learning."

Table Talk. Learning.

"Wit and wisdom are born with a man."

Table Talk. Learning.

"Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak."

Table Talk. Learning.

"Take a straw and throw it up into the air,--you may see by that which way the wind is."

Table Talk. Libels.

"Philosophy is nothing but discretion."

Table Talk. Philosophy.

"Marriage is a desperate thing."

Table Talk. Marriage.

"Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world."

Table Talk. Pope.

"They that govern the most make the least noise."

Table Talk. Power.

"Syllables govern the world."

Table Talk. Power.

"Never king dropped out of the clouds."

Table Talk. Power.

"Never tell your resolution beforehand."

Table Talk. Wisdom.

"Wise men say nothing in dangerous times."

Table Talk. Wisdom.

"God never had a church but there, men say, The Devil a chapel hath raised by some wyles. I doubted of this saw, till on a day I westward spied great Edinburgh's Saint Gyles."

Posthumous Poems.

"What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtile flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life."

Letter to Ben Jonson.

"Here are sands, ignoble things, Dropt from the ruined sides of kings."

On the Tombs of Westminster Abbey.

"It is always good When a man has two irons in the fire."

The Faithful Friends. Act i. Sc. 2.

"All your better deeds Shall be in water writ, but this in marble."

Philaster. Act v. Sc. 3.

"Upon my burned body lie lightly, gentle earth."

The Maid's Tragedy. Act i. Sc. 2.

"A soul as white as heaven."

The Maid's Tragedy. Act iv. Sc. 1.

"But they that are above Have ends in everything."

The Maid's Tragedy. Act v. Sc. 1.

"It shew'd discretion, the best part of valour."

A King and No King. Act iv. Sc. 3.

"There is a method in man's wickedness,-- It grows up by degrees."

A King and No King. Act v. Sc. 4.

"As cold as cucumbers."

Cupid's Revenge. Act i. Sc. 1.

"Calamity is man's true touchstone."

Four Plays in One: The Triumph of Honour. Sc. 1.

"Kiss till the cow comes home."

Scornful Lady. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"It would talk,-- Lord! how it talked!"

Scornful Lady. Act v. Sc. 1.

"Beggars must be no choosers."

Scornful Lady. Act v. Sc. 3.

"No better than you should be."

The Coxcomb. Act iv. Sc. 3.

"From the crown of the head to the sole of the foot."

The Honest Man's Fortune. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"One foot in the grave."

The Little French Lawyer. Act i. Sc. 1.

"Go to grass."

The Little French Lawyer. Act iv. Sc. 7.

"There is no jesting with edge tools."

The Little French Lawyer. Act iv. Sc. 7.