“Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.”

“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving. You have lost no reputation at all unless you repute yourself such a loser.”

“The apparel oft proclaims the man”

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous chief in that.”

“Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,Which we ascribe to Heaven.”

“The evil that men do lives after them;The good is oft interred with their bones.”

“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”