A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Hope itself is a pain, while it is overmatched by fear.

Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him.

Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason.

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

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

To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court