“Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.”
“Things most oft bad begun most oft get worse, as a wise man once said.”
“Despair and Genius are too oft connected”
“Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.”
“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”