Liking is not always the child of beauty; but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful.

It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction

Our poor eyes were so enriched as to behold, and our low hearts so exalted as to love, a maid who is such, that as the greatest thing the world can show is her beauty, so the least thing that may be praised in her is her beauty.

Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.

When it shall please God to bring thee to man's estate, use great providence and circumspection in choosing thy wife. For from thence will spring all thy future good or evil; and it is an action of life, like unto a stratagem of war; wherein a man can err but once!

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death.