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.

True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.

A just cause and a zealous defender make an imperious resolution cut off the tediousness of cautious discussions.

Solitude, the sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing.

Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.

For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.

Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.