To Introduction

"There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things."

"There is no darkness but ignorance."

"I never knew so young a body with so old a head."

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."

"I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience."

"The moon's an arrant thief, and her pale fire she snatches from the sun."

"The eye sees not itself but by reflection, by some other things."

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."

"I am gone, though I am here."

"Give sorrow words: The grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break."

"Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love."

"Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden."

"This is the very ecstasy of love."

"Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; when little fears grow great, great love grows there."

"O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, the monthly changes in her circled orb."

"Though she be but little, she is fierce."

"Look, how my ring encompasseth thy finger, Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart; Wear both of them, for both of them are thine."

"For stony limits cannot hold love out."