Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.
Hope itself is a pain, while it is overmatched by fear.
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place.
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.
As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.