Philip Massinger

"The good needs fear no law, It is his safety and the bad man's awe."

"Death hath a thousand doors to let out life."

"Virtue, if not in action, is a vice, And, when we move not forward, we go backward."

"What a sea Of melting ice I walk on!"

"He That kills himself to avoid misery, fears it, And, at the best, shows but a bastard valour. This life's a fort committed to my trust, Which I must not yield up till it be forc'd. —Nor will I. He's not valiant that dares die, But he that boldly bears calamity."

"Out, you impostors! Quack-salving, cheating mountebanks! Your skill Is to make sound men sick, and sick men kill."

"Be wise; Soar not too high, to fall; but stoop to rise."

"To doubt Is worse than to have lost; and to despair Is but to antedate those miseries That must fall on us."

"The oath in any way or form you please, I stand resolv'd to take it."

"He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself."

"What a bridge Of glass I walk upon, over a river Of certain ruin! Mine own weighty fears Cracking what should support me:—And those helps, Which confidence yields to others, are from me Ravish'd by doubts, and wilful jealousy."

"Some undone widow sits upon mine arm, And takes away the use of it; and my sword, Glued to my scabbard with wronged orphans' tears, Will not be drawn."

"Cause me no causes."

"This many-headed monster, The giddy multitude."

"Grim death."

"But in our Sanazarro 'tis not so, He being pure and tried gold; and any stamp Of grace, to make him current to the world, The duke is pleased to give him, will add honour To the great bestower; for he, though allow'd Companion to his master, still preserves His majesty in full lustre."

"Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation."

"Quiet night that brings Rest to the labourer, is the outlaw's day, In which he rises early to do wrong, And when his work is ended, dares not sleep."