Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .

You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.

To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.

Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.

Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.

Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.

A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.