Thomas Otway — English Dramatist died on December 30, 1685

Thomas Otway was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for Venice Preserv'd, or A Plot Discover'd... (wikipedia)

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.
Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.