When Iago addresses to Othello his homily on values—“Good name ... / Is the ... jewel of their souls. / Who steals my purse steals trash” (III.iii.155-157)—he chooses words so compact and memorizable that they have come into a kind of separate fame, and, like any other purple passage, seem a special added attraction, displayed for admiration during a brief pause in the forward movement, But these quotable lines are closely integrated into the drama, for they imply much that has taken place and much of the character of Iago. They are to be read, not as a neat package of proverbial wisdom, but as an index and a recapitulation, which is to say that their dramatic life extends far beyond the scene in which they occur.