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.

Liking is not always the child of beauty; but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful.

Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.

Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.

The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.