Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.

The truly great and good, in affliction, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont; for it is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm-tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened.

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.

Honor, thou strong idol of man's mind.

A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way.

The heavens do not send good haps in handfuls; but let us pick out our good by little, and with care, from out much bad, that still our little world may know its king.

Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.