There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.

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

There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.

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!

Friendship is made fast by interwoven benefits.

As in labor, the more one doth exercise, the more one is enabled to do, strength growing upon work; so with the use of suffering, men's minds get the habit of suffering, and all fears and terrors are not to them but as a summons to battle, whereof they know beforehand they shall come off victorious.

Valor is abased by too much loftiness.