Solitude, the sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing.
Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.
A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.
There is nothing evil but what is within us; the rest is either natural or accidental.
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
My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound.