Women are like the arts, forced unto none, Open to all searchers, unprized, if unknown.

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.

Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are false to you.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.

Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.

I have done one braver thing than all the Worthies did, and yet a braver thence doth spring, which is, to keep that hid.