All my joys to this are folly, / Naught so sweet as melancholy.

There is no such thing as happiness, only lesser shades of melancholy.

I write of melancholy, by being busy to avoid melancholy.

If there be a hell upon earth it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart

Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are discontent, in woe, fear, sorrow, or dejected, it is a most present remedy

'Tis melancholy, and a fearful sign Of human frailty, folly, also crime, That love and marriage rarely can combine, Although they both are born in the same clime; Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine - A sad, sour, sober beverage - by time Is s