Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.

The truly great and good, in affliction, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont; for it is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm-tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened.

Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.

It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.

No decking sets forth anything so much as affection.

Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness.

My true love hath my heart, and I have his