Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.