Inquisitiveness is an uncomely guest.

Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them.

I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature.

A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.

As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.

To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens.

It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.