Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.

I am Duchess of Malfi still.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.

The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.