As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.
Perfect happiness, by princes sought, Is not with birth born, nor exchequers bought.
Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her winged spirit Is feathered often times with heavenly words, And, like her beauty, ravishing and pure.
Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.
Fair words never hurt the tongue.
Enough 's as good as a feast.