who can Perswade more Powerfully than Poets?

Prosperity is like perfume, it often makes the head ache.

Everyone's conscience in religion is between God and themselves, and it belongs to none other.

First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.

The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms.

And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.

My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was Heir to my Fathers Estate, and as it were the Father to take care of us all, is not less Valiant than they were, although his skill in the Discipline of War was not so much, being not bred therein.