"He was ever precise in promise-keeping."

"We have strict statutes and most biting laws, The needful bits and curbs to headstrong steeds, — Which for these four…"

"I have on Angelo impos'd the office; Who may, in the ambush of my name, strike home."

"A man whose blood Is very snow-broth; one who never feels The wanton stings and motions of the sense."

"He arrests him on it; And follows close the rigour of the statute, To make him an example."

"Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt."

"'Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus, Another thing to fall. I do not deny, The jury, passing on the prisoner’s life…"

"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall."

"This will last out a night in Russia, When nights are longest there."

"Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, them on thee. Heaven do…"