Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

Where one door shuts another opens.

If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes; for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all; it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.

There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.

Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.

Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.