High-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.

High honor is not only gotten and born by pain and danger, but must be nursed by the like, else it vanisheth as soon as it appears to the world.

Love, one time, layeth burdens; another time, giveth wings.

Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.

It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.

Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them.

It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.