“Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.”

“Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.”

“The blessedness of being little!!!”

“By being seldom seen, I could not stir,But, like a comet, I was wondered at...He was but as the cuckoo is in June, Heard, not regarded--seen, but with such eyes,As, sick and blunted with community, Afford no extraordinary gaze.”

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs;Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears;What is it else? A madness most discreet,A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.”

“Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,And vice sometime by action dignified.”

“Think you I am no stronger than my own sex being so father'd and husbanded?”