John Ford (dramatist)

"Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the minds disease."

"Flattery Is monstrous in a true friend."

"Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailors Ive shook off old mortality."

"Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters."

"Philosophers dwell in the moon."

"Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness."

"Revenge proves its own executioner."

"Glories Of human greatness are but pleasing dreams, And shadows soon decaying."

"The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Lifes paradise, great princess, the souls quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity of pleasures; no restoratives Like to a constant woman!"

"I am, gay creature, With pardon of your deities, a mushroom On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then."

"Nice philosophy May tolerate unlikely arguments, But heaven admits no jest."

"Oh, happy kings, Whose thrones are raised in their subjects hearts."