Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
The present is an eternal now.