Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.

The rattling thunderbolt hath but his clap, the lightning but his flash, and as they both come in a moment, so do they both end in a minute.

I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.

I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love; which is lawless.

When adversities flow, then love ebbs; but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.