So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.

Gather therefore the Rose, whilst yet is prime, For soon comes age, that will her pride deflower: Gather the Rose of love, whilst yet is time.

All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.

So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.

Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.

A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.

Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.