Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.]

Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.]

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
To scorn delights, and live laborious days;
But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,
And think to burst out into sudden blaze,
Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears,
And slits the thin-spun life.

A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.

A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.

The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
[The wearer knows best where the shoe pinches.]

The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
[The wearer knows best where the shoe pinches.]

A journying woman speakes much of all, and all of her.

A journying woman speakes much of all, and all of her.

Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

Often a silent face has voice and words.
[Lat., Saepe tacens vocem verbaque vultus habet.]

Often a silent face has voice and words.
[Lat., Saepe tacens vocem verbaque vultus habet.]

But he, whose humours spurn law's awful yoke,
Must herd with those, by whom law's bonds are broke.

But he, whose humours spurn law's awful yoke,
Must herd with those, by whom law's bonds are broke.

Diseases, desperate grown,
By desperate appliance are reliev'd,
Or not at all.

Diseases, desperate grown,
By desperate appliance are reliev'd,
Or not at all.