Great is not great to the greater.
He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death.
A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.
Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.
Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk.
Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness.