This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.
Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.
The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Nothing under heaven so strongly doth allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty's love.