Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle.

High honor is not only gotten and born by pain and danger, but must be nursed by the like, else it vanisheth as soon as it appears to the world.

The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.

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.

A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.

Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.

High-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.