Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.
Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.
A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.
Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.
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
Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.