"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."

"I hold you as a thing ensky’d and sainted."

"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."

"'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…"