“Bring down the curtain,the farce is played out.”

“I am going to seek a great perhaps; draw a curtain, the farce is played out.”

“Do What Thou Wilt;because men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour. Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden and to desire what is denied us.”

“Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.”

“..to laugh is proper to the man.”

“If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.”

“A mother-in-law dies only when another devil is needed in hell.”