Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk.

Music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses.

God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are demanded.

What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.

Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle.

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.