Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.
Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.
My true love hath my heart, and I have his
Great captains do never use long orations when it comes to the point of execution.
He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.
I seek no better warrant than my own, conscience.