So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem the historian is bound to recite, that may the poet, if he list, with his imitation make his own, beautifying it both for further teaching and more delighting, as it pleaseth him; having all, from Dante’s Heaven to his Hell, under the authority of his pen.

The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.

No decking sets forth anything so much as affection.

In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place.

We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.

Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.

In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.